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Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia (left) and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida See update on the Biden administration's appointment of a leader for SolarWinds supply chain attack investigation. Citing a lack of coordination and transparency, U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Marco Rubio of the Intelligence Committee are urging the four federal agencies investigating the cyberattack that targeted SolarWinds and other organizations to designate a leader for their investigative efforts. "The threat our country still faces from this incident needs clear leadership to develop and guide a unifi...

Get Permission Microsoft's security team says the company's Office 365 suite of products did not serve as an initial entry point for the hackers who waged the SolarWinds supply chain attack. And SolarWinds' CEO, in a new blog, says the company "has not identified a specific vulnerability in Office 365 that would have allowed the threat actor to enter our environment." The incident, he says, involved the compromise of an email account through the theft of credentials. Microsoft also points to credential theft. "In our investigations to date, data hosted in Microsoft services - including emai...

Get Permission French security vendor Stormshield has launched an investigation after an internal review found that hackers accessed the source code of the company's network security product. On Thursday, Stormshield acknowledged the company had sustained a breach and that unknown hackers had accessed the source code of its Stormshield Network Security product. The firm supplies firewalls and other products to the French government and the military, and some of its tools carry the highest certification issued by France's National Information Systems Security Agency, or ANSSI, which is the co...

Get Permission Washington State Auditor Pat McCarthy says her office was not notified about a vulnerability in Accellion's file transfer product. A data breach of a Washington state auditor's system exposed 1.4 million unemployment claimants’ records. The breach involved exploiting a flaw in Accellion's file transfer product, called File Transfer Appliance, and the state’s auditor says the office was never notified of the vulnerability and that a fix was available, the Seattle Times reports. Organizations in New Zealand and Australia have also been affected by breaches tied to exploits o...

We Got ’em, But Can We Keep ’Em? Author: Jan 21, 2021 We’d never seen so many newbies getting into boating in one summer as we did during the pandemic of 2020. And while we’re focused on continuing that sales success, there also has to be actions taken to retain those new boaters, lest there be an unpleasant 2021 exodus. It’s timely that the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation and the global market-research firm IPSOS teamed up to complete a national research study revealing needed insights for retaining and engaging all of those new boaters and anglers. The study, “...