The SolarWinds Hack And The Future Of Cyber Espionage

In December of 2020 the cybersecurity company FireEye discovered a massive hack that affected over 18,000 customers of SolarWinds. As hundreds of companies and government agencies scrambled to unravel the extent of the intrusion, the U.S. government vowed to respond to the hack.

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The Massive SolarWinds Hack And The Future Of Cyber Espionage

[theWebmasterify]

Everyone is pointing at Russia yet no one is considering that it was Solarwind’s own fault by carelessly outsourcing their dev work to Eastern Europe

[AndiDuck]

" Once technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road. "
– Stewart Brand

[dannnyyang]

One month and we all already forgotten about this lol

[froochie]

You think this was the biggest hack? 75 million people disagree with you.

[maxkennedy]

The biggest hack of 2020 happened on November 3rd

[rinatcamal]

Another RussiArmageddon....
I work in IT, and I know how careless many of my colleges are regarding cybersecurity.
From my perspective this huge cyberhack is not something shocking .

[tejbirsingh]

A hack like this is more then just intelligence gathering. Information or disrupting it can be a weapon.

[starboysuniverse]

The last time i remember updates were suppose to strengthen your security but now it seems like we cant trust updates too.

[hydrolifetech]

0:42
"Microsoft, Google and other US Government entities..."
CNBC knows

[Rotoflier]

Any hacker can break into a government system. A good hacker will never let you know they were there. A great hacker will make it look like their enemy did it.

[jinpingxi]

it's scary that experts even say hacking can't be stopped

[unbelieveablerank]

The reason we can't detour this activity is because we do the same thing. Likely a "title for tat"

[xk]

"Microsoft, google and other us government entities" was most realistic sentence I heard from mainstream media in a while.

[mediaondisplay]

Its cool the way media still depicts hacking like the 90s movie "Hackers". Fast typing, green letters on backgrounds, lots of colons, when in reality hacking is more like scamming. But I guess its not as exciting to show people on the phone with customer service call centers.

[Treasurehunter]

The problems is thus people.
1. The US companies cyber security is the weak link in the chain.
2. Most companies have invested little to nothing in terms of cyber security.
3. Companies really rely on Microsoft and Apple fixing pieces of the problem for them. Which isn't a lot and both companies have problems of their own in terms of cyber security. Amazon is obviously joining the mix with AWS.

US companies need to be held liable for investing more into cyber security and personnel within their own company and not rely on Microsoft, Apple, and now Amazon to fix all the problems for them. CEO's seem to have very little grasp at how the network within their own companies work.

Companies think cause they have iOS or Windows and passwords that they are fine, but that's like locking the front door and then leaving all the other doors and windows unattended in your house. There are always other avenues of entry! In this case the infected pipeline of the supplier Solarwinds that feeds to the other customers who probably don't have checks of the info coming through the pipeline from their IT vendor.

It has little to nothing to do with the US government. It's a mindset fail of everyone in and out of government.

[FinancialShinanigan]

Every new hack seems to be the biggest one ever

[shahzebafroze]

“How do we deter cyber attacks” Snowden 🙀🙀

[impianotespaul]

when most of your friends constantly attack you you might be the bully after all...

[fredbenson]

*It's unfair on how things has turned up to be due to the recent world pandemic things has been so difficult*

*we see complains here and there in the social Media from different people in different countries all around the world*

*The government has less or no time for their people anymore*

*I think we all should try to engage in different things to make money and stop hoping on the economy*

[orinx]

Wow. It took a whole 37 seconds to blame it on Trump.