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Federal, state and local governments are among the many victims of the supply chain attack that backdoored the SolarWinds Orion network-monitoring software, and victims may need to rebuild all network assets being monitored by the software, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warns.
The U.S. probe into the attack, which is being led by CISA and the FBI, has found that government agencies of all sizes have been impacted. CISA is tracking a significant cyber incident impacting enterprise networks across federal, state and local governments, as well as critical infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations, according to a SolarWinds Orion update CISA issued Wednesday.
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Dozens of U.S. Treasury Department email accounts were breached as part of the massive SolarWinds supply chain attack, according to a senior Democratic senator. The hack of the Treasury Department appears to be significant, says Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, in a statement. “According to Treasury staff, the agency suffered a serious breach, beginning in July, the full depth of which isn’t known.
He says an investigation into exactly what was accessed or stolen remains ongoing, but that dozens of email accounts were compromised.
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Dozens of U.S. Treasury Department email accounts were breached as part of the massive SolarWinds supply chain attack, according to a senior Democratic senator. The hack of the Treasury Department appears to be significant, says Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, in a statement. “According to Treasury staff, the agency suffered a serious breach, beginning in July, the full depth of which isn’t known.
He says an investigation into exactly what was accessed or stolen remains ongoing, but that dozens of email accounts were compromised.
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SecurityEditor) • December 14, 2020
Gen. Gregory Touhill (ret.), First U.S. CISO & president, Appgate Federal He was the first U.S. federal CISO, and before that he was an Air Force general. So when Gregory Touhill reacts to the coordinated supply chain attack on SolarWinds, he does so in military terms. His message to the global cybersecurity community: “Shields up.”
Touhill, now president of Appgate Federal, says this breach is a call to arms. “We need to be looking for further activity – not only in IT, but in operational technology, industrial controls systems and, arguably, in the code that is running a lot of our internet of things devices.”
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SecurityEditor) • December 14, 2020
Gen. Gregory Touhill (ret.), First U.S. CISO & president, Appgate Federal He was the first U.S. federal CISO, and before that he was an Air Force general. So when Gregory Touhill reacts to the coordinated supply chain attack on SolarWinds, he does so in military terms. His message to the global cybersecurity community: “Shields up.”
Touhill, now president of Appgate Federal, says this breach is a call to arms. “We need to be looking for further activity – not only in IT, but in operational technology, industrial controls systems and, arguably, in the code that is running a lot of our internet of things devices.”