It seems that the U.S. approach to “cyber” defense is a complete shit show... I can’t imagine the level of incompetence and bureaucracy that led to this Solarwinds oversight - this is amateur hour stuff.
Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
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Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#12Much better article: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/17/nuclear-agency-hack...
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#13I am pointing the finger at Microsoft for allowing bad security practice in windows kernel, architecture and other aspects of the Windows operating system. I am have to hand it to Microsoft for the good job security. However without knowing the extent of the incident, and going off of this part: "At this point, the investigation has found that the malware has been isolated to business networks only..." It is more tha…
They said "business network" so MS is a likely suspect. Then again the full extent of SolarWind's contracts with the government, and the impact of their own hack, aren't completely clear and it would be a decent sized coincidence if multiple nation-state hacks around the same time we're unrelated.
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#14Nobody worry: There's a security company named SolarWinds that has a lot of experience when it comes to getting hacked, and they've already got contracts with the Federal government. Working together, I'm sure the Feds & SolarWinds can leverage those existing relationships to help get to the bottom of this situation and make sure it never happens again.
Has anyone tracked if these guys donated to the GOP and Trump?
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#15It feels like we're in the calm before the storm and nobody is watching the approaching squall. China growing in power and influence, flexing itself on the global stage. The US waning internationally, citizens divided and full of hate. We're factory-less, fab-less, and have fewer educated. Fewer consumers. Lots of debt. We have SpaceX, but China's pace of exploration and international cooperation is increasing faster…
Too bad Biden is a China lap dog...
Re: Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
#16Much better article: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/17/nuclear-agency-hack...
Dang, the link should be replaced with this one.
The reuters article is a single sentences simply referencing this original article
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#17"Most secure in history!"
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#18We’re all still here, so it could’ve gone slightly worse. Maybe not much, though.
I wonder if we have dead man switches.. In a MAD world you would want to launch without human intervention from isolated systems.... I wonder how that would work... maybe it's not possible.
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#19It feels like we're in the calm before the storm and nobody is watching the approaching squall. China growing in power and influence, flexing itself on the global stage. The US waning internationally, citizens divided and full of hate. We're factory-less, fab-less, and have fewer educated. Fewer consumers. Lots of debt. We have SpaceX, but China's pace of exploration and international cooperation is increasing faster…
A lot of countries aren't number one.
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#20We’re all still here, so it could’ve gone slightly worse. Maybe not much, though.
Though it's not what they've done so far, it's what they learned, and what they may have left behind that is more problematic.