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Today’s columnists, Pascal Geenens and Daniel Smith of Radware, say that while the SolarWinds case brought supply-chain attacks into the limelight, they are not new and security teams must finally manage them more effectively. ecooper99CreativeCommonsCredit: CC BY 2.0 The recent news about the SolarWinds hack has put software supply-chain attacks back in the limelight. But these types of attacks on commercial products aren’t new. In the past few years alone, at least four others come to mind. Security pros may recall the 2017 NotPetya attack on tax accounting software by M.E. Doc th...

18,000 Organizations Possibly Compromised in Massive Supply-Chain Cyberattack Nation-state attackers used poisoned SolarWinds network management software updates to distribute malware; US government orders federal civilian agencies to immediately power down the technology. In what may well turn out to be one of the most significant supply-chain attacks in recent years, a likely nation-state backed group compromised systems at SolarWinds and inserted malware into updates of the company's widely used Orion network management products that were released between March and June 2020. In total, ab...