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Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) have long been a concern of the cybersecurity community. Well-organized teams with significant resources and targets they are not willing to give up attacking until their mission is accomplished are certainly not a threat to be underestimated. The tactics deployed by such groups involve a combination of attack types, from exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities to social engineering, gaining access, establishing a foothold and deepening access, and then remaining in a target’s systems undetected until realizing their goal.
The recently detected, high-profile SolarWinds hack is a typical APT attack. It has targeted several US federal departments, private companies and critical infrastructure organizations, going undetected since at least March of last year. The initial infection vector identified so far relates to a zero-day vulnerability of an update of SolarWinds Orion a platform that provides full IT stack monitoring services that permitted the
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Travis Plakke doesn’t dawdle in the grocery store. There’s no perusing the aisles or bantering with the cashier. He aims to be in and out in 15 minutes. It’s not because Plakke has an aversion to picking out produce and canned goods. Rather, the space itself has a visceral effect on the 49-year-old: The flickering fluorescent lights are so distracting, he has to wear a hat pulled down low. When another shopper gets too close, Plakke’s skin begins to crawl, and his brain sometimes feels like it’s filled with static electricity. Just talking about the experience makes him sweaty and anxious.
President-elect Joe Biden leaves after speaking at The Queen theater, Dec. 28, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
President-elect Joe Biden will issue an executive order halting midnight regulations on day one of his presidency, incoming White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday. We’re announcing today that, like other incoming administrations have done before, the Biden-Harris White House will issue a memo to take effect on the afternoon Eastern Time on January 20 that will halt or delay midnight regulations, actions taken by the Trump administration that will not have taken effect by Inauguration Day, Psaki told reporters.
Midnight regulations are rules that outgoing administrations rush through during the lame-duck period.