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U.S. Hits Russia With Heavy Sanctions Over SolarWinds Hack, All That Other Bad Stuff

The Biden administration on Thursday imposed “sweeping” sanctions on Russia over a historic cyberattack that impacted multiple government agencies and major businesses, as well as its interference in U.S. elections. President Joe Biden’s executive order imposes sanctions on 32 organizations or people it believes were involved in election meddling and names six companies that allegedly…

Tech News Andrew Couts Apr 15

Former Employee Indicted for Hacking Kansas Water Utility and Trying to Shut Down Key Systems

A federal grand jury is indicting a 22-year-old guy over accusations that he tampered with a public water system. Dude allegedly hacked into a computer system that controls a rural water utility in Ellsworth County, Kansas, then messing with the virtual processes that affect procedures for cleaning and disinfecting drinking water. On March 31, Wyatt…

Earther Dharna Noor Apr 6

Hackers Now Ruining Your Ability to Get Drunk, Too

Hackers, those pilfering rogues, are now threatening something much more valuable than our money or our data: our goddamn alcohol. A cyberattack has reportedly brought production at one of the nation’s largest breweries, Molson Coors, to a standstill. On Thursday, the beer giant revealed in a regulatory filing that an attack had “caused and may…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Mar 12

Microsoft’s ‘Crazy Huge Hack,’ Explained

Last week, Microsoft announced that the on-premises version of its widely used email and calendaring product Exchange had several previously undisclosed security flaws. These flaws, the company said, were being used by foreign threat actors to hack into the networks of U.S. businesses and governments, primarily to steal large troves of email data. Since then,…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Mar 8

Chinese and Russian Hackers Reportedly Stole Vaccine Data from European Drug Regulator

Both China and Russia were reportedly behind two cyberattacks last year at the European Medicines Agency that compromised documents related to covid-19 vaccines and treatments. That’s according to sources familiar with the ongoing investigation who spoke with the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant per Reuters. In December, the Amsterdam-based European drug regulator released a statement disclosing a…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Mar 7

The Latest Microsoft Hack Looks Like It Could Be Huge

Microsoft announced this week that another one of its email products, Exchange, had been compromised by a hacking campaign. This recent hack is actually totally unrelated to the “SolarWinds” one, in which Microsoft has also played an outsized role. A state-sponsored threat actor from China dubbed “HAFNIUM” is said to be exploiting a number of…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Mar 5

Microsoft: Chinese Hackers Have Been Exploiting Our Email Product to Steal Data

In the latest in a string of security-related headaches for Microsoft, the company warned customers Tuesday that state sponsored hackers from China have been exploiting flaws in one of its widely used email products, Exchange, in order to target American companies for data theft. In several recently published blog posts, the company listed four newly…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Mar 2

SolarWinds Officials Throw Intern Under the Bus for ‘solarwinds123’ Password Fail

The SolarWinds drama just won’t stop. It’s a tale of Russian hackers’—and potentially Chinese hackers’—alleged email spying, and a gaping hole of security vulnerabilities that seems to get worse as more details come to light. Now, we can add yet another twist to the story: the laughably insecure password “solarwinds123.” In this last case, SolarWinds…

Privacy & Security Jody Serrano Feb 27

Go Update Your Passwords Right Now

Hey, you, casual internet user. Why not go and update your passwords right now? I’m not trying to boss you around or anything, but semi-frequent password changes are widely considered a great way to avoid getting hacked and having your information spilled all over the web. Yes, bad actors break into more systems than you…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Feb 26

SolarWinds Hackers Also Went After NASA and the FAA

Apparently not content with having penetrated the networks of such piddling federal agencies as the U.S. State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and that agency that maintains our nuclear stockpile, the hackers of the “SolarWinds” affair also went after NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration, according to a new report from the Washington Post.…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Feb 23

France Just Suffered a SolarWinds-Style Cyberattack

As the U.S. continues to chart the damage from the sweeping “SolarWinds” hack, France has announced that it too has suffered a large supply chain cyberattack. The news comes via a recently released technical report published by the Agence Nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information—or simply ANSSI—the French government’s chief cybersecurity agency. Like the…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Feb 16

Hacked Florida Water Plant Reportedly Had No Firewall and Poor Password Security

The water plant in Oldsmar, Fla. targeted by a hacker in a horrifying cyberattack last week is said to have exhibited very weak IT security practices. Recent updates from government authorities claim the facility did not have some basic network protections—including a firewall. In case you missed it, a hacker allegedly hijacked the plant’s operational…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Feb 11

The SolarWinds Hack Just Keeps Getting More Wild

Now the Chinese are involved. That’s one of the newest allegations to emerge in the SolarWinds scandal, the supply chain “cyber Pearl Harbor” that seems to have enveloped the entire U.S. government, as well as the private sector. While officials had previously stated Russian hackers were “likely” behind the extensive penetration into federal networks, a…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Feb 3

30% of ‘SolarWinds’ Hacking Victims Did Not Actually Use SolarWinds Software, Feds Say

The hacker group behind the ongoing SolarWinds scandal found other ways to intrude on U.S. firms and public agencies than just compromising the titular software company. In fact, nearly a third of the victims of the hack—approximately 30%—have no connection to SolarWinds at all, said a senior federal security official this week. Brandon Wales, acting…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Jan 29

A New SolarWinds Malware Strain Is Discovered

SolarWinds: it’s the hack that keeps on growing. On Monday, researchers announced the discovery of yet another malware strain used by foreign hackers to infiltrate a wide milieu of American government agencies and companies. Cybersecurity firm Symantec has reported its discovery of “Raindrop,” a “loader” (a remote access tool) that was responsible for delivering a Cobalt…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Jan 19

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SolarWinds Hires Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos Amid Fallout Over Historic Hack

Two people who left their last jobs amid brewing scandals have teamed up to rehabilitate the image of a company surely going through its worst days ever. Former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs, unceremoniously fired by President Trumpfollowing the November elections, has founded a new company with Alex Stamos, the former head…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Jan 8

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SolarWinds Hackers Accessed More Than 3,000 DOJ Email Accounts

In yet another dastardly twist in the ongoing SolarWinds debacle, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that hackers had accessed the inboxes of over 3,000 DOJ employee Microsoft email accounts. The news comes less than a day after the federal government formally blamed Russia for the giant cyberattack, alleging a hacker group attached to…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Jan 6

U.S. Government Officially Blames Russia for SolarWinds Hack

The U.S. government appears to be officially blaming Russia for the expansive and damaging SolarWinds hack, which it says was “likely” an “intelligence gathering” effort on the part of a hacker group connected to the Kremlin. The announcement came Tuesday in a joint statement issued by multiple security agencies, including the FBI, the NSA, the…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Jan 5

Microsoft Says SolarWinds Hackers Also Broke Into Its Source Code

The hackers behind the massive SolarWinds cyberattack, an operation allegedly backed by Russia that compromised networks at many U.S. agencies and Fortune 500 corporations, also broke into Microsoft’s internal systems and accessed one of the company’s most closely guarded secrets: its source code. “We detected unusual activity with a small number of internal accounts and…

Privacy & Security Alyse Stanley Dec 31

Veterans Affairs Officials Inexplicably Blow Off Briefing on SolarWinds Hack

Senior officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs abruptly cancelled a scheduled briefing with congressional leaders this week regarding the extent and impact of the SolarWinds cyberattack, a far reaching intrusion into the networks of multiple U.S. agencies and powerful corporations allegedly perpetrated by an elite team of Russian hackers sanctioned by Moscow. Democratic lawmakers…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Dec 24

U.S. Hits Russia With Heavy Sanctions Over SolarWinds Hack, All That Other Bad Stuff

Former Employee Indicted for Hacking Kansas Water Utility and Trying to Shut Down Key Systems

Hackers Now Ruining Your Ability to Get Drunk, Too

Microsoft’s ‘Crazy Huge Hack,’ Explained

Chinese and Russian Hackers Reportedly Stole Vaccine Data from European Drug Regulator

The Latest Microsoft Hack Looks Like It Could Be Huge

Microsoft: Chinese Hackers Have Been Exploiting Our Email Product to Steal Data

SolarWinds Officials Throw Intern Under the Bus for ‘solarwinds123’ Password Fail

Go Update Your Passwords Right Now

SolarWinds Hackers Also Went After NASA and the FAA

France Just Suffered a SolarWinds-Style Cyberattack

Hacked Florida Water Plant Reportedly Had No Firewall and Poor Password Security

The SolarWinds Hack Just Keeps Getting More Wild

30% of ‘SolarWinds’ Hacking Victims Did Not Actually Use SolarWinds Software, Feds Say

A New SolarWinds Malware Strain Is Discovered

SolarWinds Hires Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos Amid Fallout Over Historic Hack

SolarWinds Hackers Accessed More Than 3,000 DOJ Email Accounts

U.S. Government Officially Blames Russia for SolarWinds Hack

Microsoft Says SolarWinds Hackers Also Broke Into Its Source Code

Veterans Affairs Officials Inexplicably Blow Off Briefing on SolarWinds Hack

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