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Suspected Chinese hackers used SolarWinds bug to spy on US payroll agency: Report
SolarWinds Corp. banner hangs at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the IPO day of the company in New York on Oct 19, 2018. (Photo: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)
03 Feb 2021 02:45AM (Updated:
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WASHINGTON: Suspected Chinese hackers exploited a flaw in software made by SolarWinds to help break into US government computers last year, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters, marking a new twist in a sprawling cybersecurity breach that US lawmakers have labeled a national security emergency.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Suspected Chinese hackers exploited a flaw in software made by SolarWinds Corp to help break into U.S. government computers last year, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters, marking a new twist in a sprawling cybersecurity breach that U.S. lawmakers have labeled a national security emergency.
Two people briefed on the case said FBI investigators recently found that the National Finance Center, a federal payroll agency inside the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was among the affected organizations, raising fears that data on thousands of government employees may have been compromised.
Biden s new federal CISO also has previous experience in government cyber security. He worked at the Department of Homeland Security from 2009 until 2015 as a cyber security strategist and then as advisor to the Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity before spending two years at the White House as the president’s senior cyber security advisor.
He left that role a few months after former President Trump took office, moving to a position at Ford Motor Company to look after enterprise vulnerability management and application security. After a year at Ford, he went to work for the state of Michigan, where he started as deputy chief security officer before taking the top role.
The company has not seen enough evidence to positively trace the hackers behind the ongoing SolarWinds Orion hack to Russian entities, a FireEye executive said.
The company has not seen enough evidence to positively trace the hackers behind the ongoing SolarWinds Orion hack to Russian entities, a FireEye executive said.