Tag: SolarWinds
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Sharks Are Scary but Worry About Mosquitoes
[This was originally published on RiskBasedSecurity.com and was included in the 2021 Mid Year Vulnerability QuickView Report.] It seems like every day that we hear about a new hack and read headlines that tell us that so-called advanced persistent threats (APT) are compromising major organizations. These APT and nation-state actors have incredible skill and seemingly…
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SolarWinds: Sitting on Undisclosed Vulnerabilities
[This was originally published on RiskBasedSecurity.com.] SolarWinds was in the news last year, as the victim of an attack that compromised its Orion Platform software by inserting a backdoor into it, allowing for remote code execution. This attack has had an incredible impact on the security industry and recently, interest in the SolarWinds breach has…
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Sitting on Undisclosed Vulnerabilities (e.g. SolarWinds Stragglers)
The company SolarWinds is in the news, victims of an attack that compromised their Orion Platform software by inserting a backdoor into it, allowing for remote code execution. Like most big breaches, we hear the term “sophisticated” used for the attack. And like many breaches, we quickly learn that it might not have been so…