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The SolarWinds Misstep: Who Else Walked Off the Cliff? “Hack Said to Extend Beyond SolarWinds” is a troubling “real” news story. The idea that bad actors may have gained access to commercial and government servers for more than a year was troubling. According to the write up, the data breach has another dimension: Close to …

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Does This Mean Bad Actors Are Now Riding in 10,000 SolarWinds Powered Digital Sailboats? I read “Hackers Breaking into Networks without SolarWinds, CISA Says.” The write up states that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency offered: “Specifically, we are investigating incidents in which activity indicating abuse of Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) tokens consistent with …

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SolarWinds Are Gusting and Blowing Hard In considering some of the “odd” organizations compromised by SolarWinds, there are three reasons for why they might have been targeted: A launch pad for secondary attacks. The idea is that the original compromise was like a rat carrying fleas infected with the bubonic plague (arguably more problematic than …

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SolarWinds: One Interesting Message I read “Wave of Cyberattacks Exposes the Powerlessness of IT Security Chiefs.” With all the hoohah about cyber superiority from government officials and commercial enterprises, one troubling fact is clear: If the advanced systems could not detect the attack nor could top secret security systems monitoring possible bad actors, the defensive …

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