Two of legal’s top cybersecurity pros recount the latest, craziest cybersecurity and cybercrime stories of 2020, beginning with this week’s massive hack of U.S. government agencies.
COMPROMISED: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Treasury, State, Homeland Security, NIH and the Pentagon
Graham Cluley reported on December 15 that the United States Departments of Commerce, Treasury, State and Homeland Security, the National Institutes of Health and the Pentagon have had their networks compromised in what seems to have been a massive supply-chain attack on American government systems.
The unwitting source seems to be enterprise monitoring software company SolarWinds, which has more than 300,000 customers worldwide. In a regulatory disclosure issued December 14, SolarWinds offered limited details of what happened.