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Month: December 2020

SolarWinds hack: What we know, and don’t know, so far

December 18, 2020 Bob Sullivan 1

Microsoft’s map of organizations hit by the SolarWinds hack. I keep hearing this from people I respect: It’s hard to overstate how serious the SolarWinds hack is. So, yes, it seems to be the Big One. I suspect we’ll be hearing about the damage for years. This piece is a [Keep reading]

Google down, government hacked, FireEye raided, Amazon outage — it’s been a rough patch

December 16, 2020 Bob Sullivan 0

Downdetector.com chart It’s been a bad few days for the Internet. Google, Amazon, security firm FireEye, and several federal agencies — like the Department of Commerce — have all suffered major incidents or outages recently. The government attack, involving widely-used management software named Solar Winds, gave hackers access to critical [Keep reading]

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