CISA ISSUES EMERGENCY DIRECTIVE TO MITIGATE THE COMPROMISE OF SOLARWINDS ORION NETWORK MANAGEMENT PRODUCTS
“THE HACK IS SO SERIOUS IT LED TO A NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING AT THE WHITE HOUSE ON SATURDAY, SAID ONE OF THE PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THE MATTER.
Hackers believed to be operating on behalf of a foreign government have breached software provider SolarWinds and then deployed a malware-laced update for its Orion software to infect the networks of multiple US companies and government networks, US security firm FireEye said today. (Interestingly, I received notification from a cyber security expert in Europe last week that FireEye itself had been hacked. This to quote Joe Biden is a “Big Fecking Deal.” See their statement below.*)
SolarWinds Inc. is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. SolarWinds is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with sales and product development offices in a number of locations in the United States and several other countries around the world.
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