By Robert McMillan Close Robert McMillan Dec. 15, 2020 7:48 am ET The widespread and monthslong hack of the U.S. government and some of America’s biggest corporations was enabled by an unlikely source: a little-known Austin, Texas, software company called SolarWinds Corp. SWI -6.12% that until this week was a household name only to computer network administrators.
“ “They turned that one compromise into who knows how many other compromises that we’re going to be learning about for weeks. We may never know the full impact.” ” Newsletter Sign-up WSJ Pro Cybersecurity Cybersecurity news, analysis and insights from WSJ's global team of reporters and editors. The hackers were sophisticated and operated in a slow and deliberate fashion, using their foothold in victims’ networks to poke and prod computer systems and eventually to steal information, investigators say. FireEye, which was one of the victims of the incident, said last week the hackers stole a suite of hacking software that it employed to test the security of its customers.
'little known' lol you can't be serious
It looks like a carefully planned campaign, far beyond imagination. Many gov agencies are affected. The question is, what is the possible purpose? A show of force to warn new Biden admin ?
It's exceedingly easy to envision a CIA or KGB project called 'Operation Solar Winds...' but yeah, let's everybody use the exact same company for all our security needs, why not?
I wouldn’t call them little known. Publicly traded and they do a billion in sales.
Russia is the “prime suspect” but that has not been proven. This hack may have been By China or another country or multiple countries.
Uhhh SolarWinds is not little-known lol.
i am sure there are caring good Russians that smile when they run across non-sense files packed with mis-information
Your weekend attack that hit the U.S. people started with a hack piece by well-known homophobe called Joseph Epstein. DrJillBiden
Cyber attackers are like these parasites
If only that moron trump would do his job : (
It wasn’t Russia fake news
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Heck, given the actions of Texas lately, they were probably invited in.
Common sense.
Go Russia!!! Bring it all down.