![]() On the underground market for buying and selling cyber vulnerabilities But what I kept hearing from security researchers and people who worked at these agencies was just how much vulnerable data was outside these classified systems. Originally when this hack was discovered, one of the bright spots was that they believed that the hackers had not made their way into classified systems. plans to restore power in the event of a catastrophic blackout On how the SolarWinds hackers may have accessed Black Start, the name of U.S. ![]() We know that the Treasury used it and all the other victims that are coming out, including our utility companies. So what we were looking at really was a company that didn't have very good security, but that was touching some of the most sensitive systems we have. When I started calling up some of the victims of this attack, many of them didn't even know they used SolarWinds software until it came out that the company was breached. We learned that they were warned as far back as two years before this attack began that if they didn't take their security more seriously, it could be catastrophic. We learned that they had really basic passwords. On SolarWinds, the cyber security company through which the hackers entered, which used the password "solarwinds123" "What we know is that this thing has hit the Department of Homeland Security - the very agency charged with keeping us safe - the Treasury, the State Department, the Justice Department, the Department of Energy, some of the nuclear labs, the Centers for Disease Control." "We really don't know the extent of it," Perlroth says. New York Times cyber security reporter Nicole Perlroth calls the SolarWinds hack "one of the biggest intelligence failures of our time." government agencies and private companies via SolarWinds, a security software used by many thousands of organizations in the U.S. The hack dates back to March 2020, and possibly even earlier, when an adversary, believed to be Russia, hacked into the computer networks of U.S. cybersecurity company announced it had recently uncovered a massive cyber breach. New York Times reporter Nicole Perlroth says it may take years to fully understand the extent of the SolarWinds cyber security breach.Ĭhris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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