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Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois called the alleged Russian-backed hack of government agencies and corporations virtually a declaration of war, according to a report. We need an honest reset in terms of relationships between the United States and Russia, Durbin told CNN on Wednesday. We can’t be buddies with Vladimir Putin and have him at the same time making this kind of cyberattack on America. This is virtually a declaration of war by Russia on the United States, and we should take it that seriously, the minority whip added.
The unexpected Covid-19 lockdowns around the world have greatly reduced the variables for the “future casting” that tech columnists are asked to do each year by editors.
WFH is now a bona fide acronym (for work from home) at least in the tech industry, where I see it used with as much regularity as well-known acronyms like SMS or OTP. It’s the new work movement.
But, like much else that exploded into the mainstream this year, it’s been a long time coming. I first wrote about “telecommuting”, as it was then called, in the late 1990s; before it evolved through several iterations of distributed workforce to plain old WFH.
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FireEye said it’s identified a killswitch that prevents the malware distributed through malicious updates to SolarWinds’ Orion network monitoring tool from continuing to operate.
The breakthrough comes just a day after KrebsOnSecurity reported that Microsoft had taken control over a key domain name that was used by the SolarWinds hackers to communicate with systems compromised by the backdoor Orion product updates. FireEye named the malware distributed through trojanized SolarWinds Orion updates SUNBURST.
“Under certain conditions, the malware would terminate itself and prevent further execution,” a FireEye spokesperson said in a statement. “This killswitch will affect new and previous SUNBURST infections by disabling SUNBURST deployments that are still beaconing to avsvmcloud[.]com.”
Powered by In a nutshell, SolarWinds Orion product provides centralized monitoring across an organization s entire IT stack. That means the attackers who were able to compromise this platform had an extremely high level of access to all of these client systems, David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, recently told Fox News.
Largely considered a back office software company, according to Baird research analyst Rob Oliver, SolarWinds was founded in 1999 by former Walmart executive Donald Yonce and his brother, David. It has also been likened to a smaller Microsoft by some industry experts.
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According to the company s website, its first products, Trace Route and Ping Sweep, “arrived on the scene to help IT pros quell everyone’s world-ending fears just before the turn of the millennium and the Y2K computer bug.