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Major hack hits energy companies, U.S. agencies Source: By Blake Sobczak, E&E News reporter • Posted: Tuesday, December 15, 2020
A massive hack of IT service provider SolarWinds led to cybersecurity compromises at multiple federal agencies. At least two of the Energy Department’s national labs use SolarWinds software and may have been affected by the hack, among thousands of other potential victims. Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration); Francis Chung/E&E News (photo); Freepik (binary code)
Top cybersecurity officials are scrambling to assess the fallout from a far-reaching hack of U.S. federal agencies and global companies, with electric power utilities, at least two Energy Department national labs and thousands of other organizations potentially breached.
“[These attackers] are weaponizing market share and scale against a software provider,” Mr. Pollard said. “That’s incredibly concerning.”
Some computer systems at the Commerce and Treasury departments, as well as the Department of Homeland Security, were compromised as a result of the attack. SolarWinds lists many additional customers on its website 425 of the Fortune 500 companies and additional U.S. agencies but it is unclear how many and which have been affected.
Mr. Pollard said such reach can allow attackers to hit multiple targets through a single entry point.
“While there’s a lot of advantages of centralizing from a procurement perspective, you have to wonder if you concentrated too much risk in the U.S. government,” he said. “You’re not going to put the president and vice president on the same flight.”
electricity subsector coordinating council, the escc. is that something, that comment, are we looking at getting some success out of that? i think it s emblematic of a lot of work that the intelligence community has done, the department of homeland security, in engaging with each of the i think 16 key infrastructure sectors in this country, and providing what we have embarked on is provided them, tailored to each one of those sector, intelligence estimates of what the threats ad vulnerabilities are in order to help them take measures to enhance their cyber security. i think the major point here is that if there is any connection whatsoever with the internet, there is an inherent security vulnerability. and we have to manage that, the
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