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Monday 21 December 2020

Pardon the Intrusion #33: SolarWinds unleashes a cyber storm


Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. Earlier this week, several major US government agencies — including the Departments of Homeland Security, Commerce, Treasury, and State — discovered that their digital systems had been breached by hackers in what’s fast turning out to be a highly sophisticated supply chain attack. Such attacks often work by first compromising a third-party vendor with a connection to the true target. Infiltrating a third-party provider that has access to their customers’ networks also vastly…

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