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solarwinds123 wont inspire confidence, if true Share Copy Updated SolarWinds, the maker of the Orion network management software that was subverted to distribute backdoored updates that led to the compromise of multiple US government bodies, was apparently told last year that credentials for its software update server had been exposed in a public GitHub repo. Vinoth Kumar, a security researcher, claimed on Tuesday he had made such a report to SolarWinds last November, warning that it co...

SolarWinds Was Warned Last Year Its Server Could Be Accessed With Password ‘Solarwinds123’ A security researcher alerted network software giant SolarWinds last year that its software update server could be accessed using the password: “solarwinds123.” “This could have been done by any attacker, easily,” Vinoth Kumar, the security researcher, said about discovering the relatively insecure password. SolarWinds is facing increased scrutiny after disclosing that it has been the subject ...

Scope of SolarWinds hack grows as Microsoft moves to protect customers SHARE More details continue to emerge on the hack of software from SolarWinds WorldWide LLC used by the U.S. government and others as Microsoft Corp. today moved to protect customers from the compromise. The hack, first reported Sunday and blamed on Russian state-sponsored hackers, came about after SolarWinds pushed compromised software to some 18,000 of its customers in both March and June. The da...

Wed, Dec 16th 2020 3:27am — Tim Cushing As was noted here earlier, up to 18,000 customers of globally-dominant network infrastructure vendor SolarWinds may have been compromised by malicious hackers. The hackers -- presumed to be operating on behalf of the Russian government -- deployed tainted updates (served up by SolarWinds) that gave them backdoors to snoop on internal communications and exfiltrate sensitive data. The attack was so widespread and potentially catastrophic, the DHSs cyber w...

minute read Share this article: Meanwhile, FireEye has found a kill switch, and Microsoft and other vendors are quickly moving to block the Sunburst backdoor used in the attack. SECOND UPDATE A perfect storm may have come together to make SolarWinds such a successful attack vector for the global supply-chain cyberattack discovered this week. Researchers said that includes  its use of a default password (“SolarWinds123”) that gave attackers an open door into its software-updat...

Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images A security researcher told Reuters he warned the IT firm SolarWinds in 2019 that its "solarwinds123" password for its update server could be accessed by anyone. "This could have been done by any attacker, easily," Vinoth Kumar told the outlet, which reported that experts are now working to identify weak security points in the companys system that could have led to the attack. SolarWinds suffered a massive hack when attack...

Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds dominance against it Toggle share menu Advertisement Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds dominance against it SolarWinds Corp banner hangs at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the IPO day of the company in New York, on Oct 19, 2018. (Photo: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid) 16 Dec 2020 03:20AM (Updated: 16 Dec 2020 05:00AM) Share this content Bookmark WASHINGTON: On an ear...

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), SolarWinds said roughly 33,000 of its more than 300,000 customers were Orion customers, and that fewer than 18,000 customers may have had an installation of the Orion product that contained the malicious code. SolarWinds said the intrusion also compromised its Microsoft Office 365 accounts. The initial breach disclosure from SolarWinds came five days after cybersecurity incident response firm FireEye announced it had suffered an intrusion that res...

A security expert reportedly warned SolarWinds in 2019 that anyone could access the companys update server with the password solarwinds123 insider@insider.com (Katie Canales) © Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images A security researcher told Reuters he warned the IT firm SolarWinds in 2019 that its "solarwinds123" password for its update server could be accessed by anyone. "This could have been done by any attacker, easily," V...

SolarWinds Update Server Could Be Accessed in 2019 Using Password solarwinds123: Report Newsweek 15/12/2020 Jason Lemon © Getty In this photo illustration, a hackers hands can be seen typing a laptop keyboard as the screen displays ones and zeroes. SolarWinds update server was accessible by using the simple password "solarwinds123" in late 2019, according to a security researcher. News broke on Sunday that SolarWinds OrionIT product was hacked as far back as March, with mal...