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Microsoft President Brad Smith: SolarWinds Attack Violated ‘Norms And Rules’ Of Government Activities
by Kyle Alspach
In keynote remarks at CES 2021, Smith slammed the Russia-linked breach as an ‘indiscriminate global assault on the tech supply chain’ and called on world governments to be held ‘to a higher standard.’
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McAfee To Lay Off Up To 60, Close Israeli Development Center: Reports
by Michael Novinson
McAfee is expected to move its Israeli operations overseas as a cost-cutting measure, meaning that most of the 50 R&D employees and 10 salespeople at the Tel Aviv facility will be laid off, Globes reported.
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Hackers Compromise Mimecast Certificate For Microsoft Authentication
by Michael Novinson
The certificate used to authenticate Mimecast’s Sync and Recover, Continuity Monitor and Internal Email Protect (IEP) products to Microsoft 365 has been compromised by a sophisticated threat actor.
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Hackers Taunt FireEye’s Kevin Mandia At Home With Postcard: Report
by Michael Novinson
The FBI is investigating a mysterious postcard sent to CEO Kevin Mandia’s home days after FireEye found initial evidence of a hacking operation on federal agencies and private businesses, Reuters reports.
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SolarWinds CEO: Attack Was ‘One Of The Most Complex And Sophisticated’ In History
by Michael Novinson
Hackers first accessed SolarWinds in September 2019 and went out of their way to avoid being detected by the company’s software development and build teams, SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna says.
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Forcepoint Snags Former Arista, F5 Exec Manny Rivelo As CEO
by Michael Novinson
Forcepoint has named Manny Rivelo, John DiLullo and Dave Stevens to senior executive positions following the platform security vendor’s $1.1 billion sale from Raytheon to private equity firm Francisco Partners.
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SolarWinds Fights Back With Chris Krebs, Alex Stamos Hires
by Michael Novinson
‘Armed with what we have learned of this attack, we are also reflecting on our own security practices and seeking opportunities to enhance our posture and policies. We have brought in the expertise of Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos to assist in this review,’ SolarWinds tells CRN.
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Akamai Unveils New Partner Program To Drive Service Delivery
by Michael Novinson
Solution providers who are certified to deliver advanced services around Akamai can earn margins of up to 40 percent, while demand gen partners will be eligible for margins of between 15 percent and 20 percent.
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SolarWinds Hackers Compromise Confidential Court Filings
by Michael Novinson
The Russian hackers behind the SolarWinds attack have apparently compromised the federal courts’ electronic case filing system, putting ‘highly sensitive non-public documents’ at great risk.
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SolarWinds To Pay Ex-CEO $312K To Assist With Investigations
by Michael Novinson
SolarWinds has agreed to pay former CEO Kevin Thompson $62,500 for each of the next five months as the embattled company faces a likely wave of lawsuits and government probes into its conduct around the hack.
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SolarWinds Hackers Got Into U.S. Justice Department’s Emails
by Michael Novinson
‘At this point, the number of potentially accessed Office 365 mailboxes appears limited to around 3 percent, and we have no indication that any classified systems were impacted,’ the Justice Department announces.
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Feds: SolarWinds Breach Is Likely Russian Intel Gathering Effort
by Michael Novinson
Nearly ten U.S. government agencies experienced follow-on activity on their systems after being compromised through a malicious SolarWinds Orion update, the Cyber Unified Coordination Group says.
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Cloud Security Vendor iboss Raises $145M To Further Grow Its SASE Model
by Michael Novinson
The funding comes on the heels of six-figure investments in its top rivals and a month after iBoss snagged former Cylance global channel chief May Mitchell to serve as its senior vice president of marketing.
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