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Skip to main content Currently Reading The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and the SolarWinds hack were all but inevitable - why national cyber defense is a wicked problem Terry Thompson, Johns Hopkins University May 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Terry Thompson, Johns Hopkins University (THE CONVERSATION) Takeaways: · Software supply chains and private sector infrastructure companies are vulnerable to hackers. · Many U.S. companies outsource software development because o...

9 slides Credit: Zoë van Dijk for NPR A Worst Nightmare Cyberattack: The Untold Story Of The SolarWinds Hack By "This release includes bug fixes, increased stability and performance improvements." The routine software update may be one of the most familiar and least understood parts of our digital lives. A pop-up window announces its arrival and all that is required of us is to plug everything in before bed. The next morning, rather like the shoemaker and the elves, our s...

Zoë van Dijk for NPR "This release includes bug fixes, increased stability and performance improvements." The routine software update may be one of the most familiar and least understood parts of our digital lives. A pop-up window announces its arrival and all that is required of us is to plug everything in before bed. The next morning, rather like the shoemaker and the elves, our software is magically transformed. Last spring, a Texas-based company called SolarWinds made one such softwa...

Zoë van Dijk for NPR hide caption toggle caption Zoë van Dijk for NPR An NPR investigation into the SolarWinds attack reveals a hack unlike any other, launched by a sophisticated adversary intent on exploiting the soft underbelly of our digital lives. Zoë van Dijk for NPR "This release includes bug fixes, increased stability and performance improvements." The routine software update may be one of the most familiar and least understood parts of our dig...

planning cyberattacks against Russia in the coming weeks. The cyber offensive could come with new sanctions and would mark a serious escalation towards Moscow from the new administration. Anonymous US officials told the  Times that the first "major move" is expected to happen over the next three weeks. It will consist of a "series of clandestine actions across Russian networks that are intended to be evident to President Vladimir Putin and his intelligence services and military but not to...

Blaming an intern is a profoundly unproductive path to go down.

Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, March 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against SolarWinds Corporation ("SolarWinds" or the "Company") (NYSE: SWI) and certain of its officers.  The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, and docketed under 21-cv-00047, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise, acquir...

UPDATED: Many things came together to crack SolarWinds, but it may all have started with that classic mistake of leaking a lousy password. A SolarWinds third-party, public relations spokesperson, however, claims that the password incident had nothing to do with the major security breach.

Date: 20 Apr 2021 The Coronavirus pandemic has had a huge impact on our lives with most organisations making a sudden switch to mass remote working. As restrictions are progressively eased, the impact continues, with organisations having to decide when to allow staff back into offices, what proportion of remote working should be expected, and how all of this should be supported.Take part in this virtual event to put your questions to the experts, and see what your peers have learnt from the pan...

SolarWinds Blames Intern for solarwinds123 Password Lapse As cybersecurity researchers continue to piece together the sprawling SolarWinds supply chain attack, top executives of the Texas-based software services firm blamed an intern for a critical password lapse that went unnoticed for several years. The said password "solarwinds123" was originally believed to have been publicly accessible via a GitHub repository since June 17, 2018, before the misconfiguration was addressed on November 22, 2...