{"id":32615,"date":"2021-01-02T16:50:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T21:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=9fb87a5f4c529c95824bff0ebd4917f2"},"modified":"2021-01-02T16:50:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T21:50:15","slug":"solarwinds-hack-may-be-much-worse-than-originally-feared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32615","title":{"rendered":"SolarWinds hack may be much worse than originally feared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/1\/2\/22210667\/solarwinds-hack-worse-government-microsoft-cybersecurity\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: This is what SaaS and especially bolt-on security gets you.  Breach of the vendor = breach of all clients.<\/div><figure><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/UFY6KYwZUR4OQ9lSCD0TsTSfkxI=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/68610303\/acastro_170621_1777_0007_v2_0001.0.jpg\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><figcaption>Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>The Russia-linked SolarWinds hack which targeted US government agencies and private corporations may be even worse than officials first realized, with some 250 federal agencies and business now believed affected, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/02\/us\/politics\/russian-hacking-government.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>New York Times<\/em> reported.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has said the hackers compromised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarwinds.com\/securityadvisory\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SolarWinds&rsquo; Orion monitoring and management software<\/a>, allowing them to &ldquo;impersonate any of the organization&rsquo;s existing users and accounts, including highly privileged accounts.&rdquo; The <em>Times <\/em>reports that Russia exploited layers of the supply chain to access the agencies&rsquo; systems.  <\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> reports that early warning sensors that Cyber Command and the NSA placed inside foreign networks to detect potential attacks appear to have failed in this instance. In...<\/p>\n  <p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/1\/2\/22210667\/solarwinds-hack-worse-government-microsoft-cybersecurity\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The VergeThe Russia-linked SolarWinds hack which targeted US governme&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32615\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}