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Microsoft President Brad Smith (Photo: Microsoft) More than 1,000 developers likely worked on rewriting code for the massive SolarWinds supply chain attack that affected many companies and U.S. government agencies, Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a Sunday interview, pointing out the attack is most likely continuing. In an interview with CBS News "60 Minutes," Smith said the supply chain attack was "the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen." The U.S. federal agen...

GSA Leadership Talks Priorities and Future of Trump-Era Initiatives Rena Schild/Shutterstock.com email February 12, 2021 The General Services Administration’s acting administrator and commissioner of the acquisition division discuss its technology programs, the beta.SAM migration, D-U-N-S transition, SolarWinds and more. A new set of leaders have taken their places at the General Services Administration, the agency responsible for managing federal property, pr...

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Tuesday criticized the “disorganized” federal response to the recently uncovered Russian hack of IT group SolarWin

Photo: Mathew Schwartz What if there was something more insidious than hackers stealing data and crashing computers? For example, what if the hacking forced victims to lose faith in the reliability and security of digital tools, thus driving them to use analog alternatives that result in a massive slowdown of essential social processes - such as the nations court system? Enter the SolarWinds supply chain attack, in which suspected Russian spies successfully planted a backdoor in widely used Ori...

Mounting evidence points to the "serious compromise" of SolarWinds' Orion software having been an intelligence gathering operation "likely" run

Biden signs executive actions on racial equity Rebecca Shabad and Kristen Welker and Lauren Egan © Provided by NBC News The executive actions direct the Department of Housing and Urban Development to "take steps necessary to redress racially discriminatory federal housing policies that have contributed to wealth inequality for generations," according to a fact sheet shared by the White House. The executive actions also end the Justice Departments use of private prisons, recomm...

Get Permission Email security vendor Mimecast confirmed Tuesday that the hackers responsible for the SolarWinds supply chain hack also breached the security firms network to compromise a digital certificate that encrypts data that moves between some of the firms products and Microsofts servers. When London-based Mimecast first acknowledged the breach earlier this month, the company reported that fewer than 10 of its clients had been targeted by the hackers during the compromise. The company is...

Al Pascual, COO at Breach Clarity What impact could the SolarWinds supply chain hack have on fraud trends? Al Pascual of Breach Clarity offers an analysis. “It is very hard for fraud professionals to plan and anticipate. How do you figure out what the incident means for your clients, vendors and your organization when you do not even know whether or not they were compromised?” Pascual says. In a video interview with Information Security Media Group, Pascual also discusses: The impac...

An timeline illustrating a Raindrop infection (Source: Symantec Threat Intelligence ) Symantec Threat Intelligence says it has uncovered another malware variant used in the SolarWinds supply chain hack - a loader nicknamed "Raindrop" that apparently was used to deliver Cobalt Strike, a legitimate penetration testing tool, to a handful of targets. Raindrop is the fourth malware variant identified as being used during the attack that targeted SolarWinds’ Orion network monitoring software. The o...

19 January 2021, 10:29 pm EST By Malwarebytes was struck by the same lighting that attacked SolarWindss system in 2020, being one of the most scandalous hacks in the past year that affected several of the United States government who were clients. There is no mention of the Russians taking part in the recent hack to Malwarebytes, but SolarWinds who initially suffered the attack was taken by the "Cozy Bear." (Photo : Malwarebytes) The popular anti-malware security software and multiplatform ap...