FireEye not ready to name Russians as SolarWinds attackers -- Defense Systems
The company has not seen enough evidence to positively trace the hackers behind the ongoing SolarWinds Orion hack to Russian entities, a FireEye executive said.
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The company has not seen enough evidence to positively trace the hackers behind the ongoing SolarWinds Orion hack to Russian entities, a FireEye executive said.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned of attacks that leverage phishing and email forwarding vulnerabilities as well as one that bypassed multifactor authentication.
By Defense Systems Staff Jan 20, 2021 The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency wants a geolocation dataset of U.S. businesses operating in sectors considered essential to U.S. homeland security. According to a Jan. 7 request for information, NGA said it’s looking for sources of commercial geospatial databases that could be integrated into the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data (HIFLD) to inform senior leaders protecting the nation’s infrastructure. The data would support “operational, situational and strategic awareness” and facilitate crisis response, preparedness plann...
By Justin Katz Jan 13, 2021 A top counterintelligence official today said the number of federal agencies affected by the SolarWinds Orion breach will likely grow higher than an initial estimate announced by a White House task force last week. The White House task force organizing the response to the attack said last week that fewer than 10 federal agencies were affected. William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said today during a Washington Post event both the number of known public and private sector organizations affected by the SolarWinds hack wil...
The Pentagon eliminated a class deviation that implemented the president's executive order purging diversity training across federal grants and contracts.