Cybersecurity Firm: Booting Hackers a Complex Chore January 20, 2021 By Frank Bajak BOSTON (AP) — Efforts to assess the impact of a more than seven-month-old cyberespionage campaign blamed on Russia — and...
Hacking Victim SolarWinds Hires Ex-Homeland Security Official Krebs as Consultant January 8, 2021 By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO — The company used by hackers as a springboard for the worst-known breach of U.S. government computers in...
FBI Probe of Major Hack Includes Project-Management Software From JetBrains January 7, 2021 By Joseph Menn and Jack Stubbs WASHINGTON, Jan 6 — The FBI is investigating whether the hackers behind a series of intrusions at U.S. federal agencies...
SolarWinds Adviser Warned of Lax Security Years Before Hack December 22, 2020 By Ryan Gallagher A former security adviser at the IT monitoring and network management company SolarWinds Corp. said he warned management of cybersecurity...
Little-Known Solarwinds Gets Scrutiny Over Hack, Stock Sales December 18, 2020 By Matt O'Brien Before this week, few people were aware of SolarWinds, a Texas-based software company providing vital computer network monitoring services to...
U.S. Agencies Failed to Heed Cybersecurity Warnings, GAO Says December 16, 2020 By William Turton As details of the most audacious hack on the U.S. government in recent memory continued to stun lawmakers and the...
US Agencies Hacked in Monthslong Global Cyberspying Campaign December 15, 2020 By Eric Tucker, Frank Bajak and Matt O'brien WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. government agencies were ordered to scour their networks for malware and disconnect potentially compromised servers on...