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Splunk: Deal-Closing Rate Rebounded In Fourth Quarter Company sees continued demand for its big data platform for digital security tasks, says SolarWinds attack highlights the need for “timely detection capabilities.” By Rick Whiting March 04, 2021, 03:10 PM EST A slowdown in deal closings big data software developer Splunk experienced in its fiscal third quarter, which the company attributed to ongoing uncertainty from the COVID-19 pandemic, did not continue into the fourth quarter, company executives said this week in announcing Splunk’s fiscal 2021 f...

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A Second Hacker Group May Have Also Breached SolarWinds, Microsoft Says As the probe into the SolarWinds supply chain attack continues, new digital forensic evidence has brought to light that a separate threat actor may have been abusing the IT infrastructure provider's Orion software to drop a similar persistent backdoor on target systems. "The investigation of the whole SolarWinds compromise led to the discovery of an additional malware that also affects the SolarWinds Orion product but has been determined to be likely unrelated to this compromise and used by a different threat actor," Micr...

The Department of Commerce was one of many agencies and companies attacked worldwide by Russia’s APT 29 via SolarWinds Orion servers. Today’s special columnist, Kelvin Coleman of the NCSA, offers some analysis and practical advice for security pros. Tim Evanson Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) Although the true scope of the SolarWinds attack has not been fully uncovered, there’s no doubting the level of sophistication required to carry these attacks on numerous government agencies, including the US Treasury, Commerce Department and the Departm...

The U.S. Treasury Department was part of a massive supply chain attack on the SolarWinds IT management platform by Russia’s APT 29 group. Today’s columnist, Sam Curry of Cybereason, offers some analysis of the prolific hack and advice for security teams on how to respond. R BoedCreative CommonsAttribution 4.0 International News over the weekend of a massive breach by Russia’s APT 29 against the U.S. Treasury and U.S. Commerce Departments was eye-opening in its intensity. In addition, the CISA emergency directive urging all public and private sector organizations to assess thei...