information technology
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U.S. Hits Russia With Heavy Sanctions Over SolarWinds Hack, All That Other Bad Stuff
The Biden administration on Thursday imposed “sweeping” sanctions on Russia over a historic cyberattack that impacted multiple government agencies and major businesses, as well as its interference in U.S. elections.
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Microsoft: Chinese Hackers Have Been Exploiting Our Email Product to Steal Data
In the latest in a string of security-related headaches for Microsoft, the company warned customers Tuesday that state sponsored hackers from China have been exploiting flaws in one of its widely used email products, Exchange, in order to target American companies for data theft.
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France Just Suffered a SolarWinds-Style Cyberattack
As the U.S. continues to chart the damage from the sweeping “SolarWinds” hack that targeted government and industry alike, France has announced that it too has suffered a large supply chain cyberattack. The news comes via a recently released technical report published by the Agence Nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information — or simply…
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30% of ‘SolarWinds’ Hacking Victims Did Not Actually Use SolarWinds Software, Feds Say
The hacker group behind the ongoing SolarWinds scandal found other ways to intrude on U.S. firms and public agencies than just compromising the titular software company. In fact, nearly a third of the victims of the hack — approximately 30% — have no connection to SolarWinds at all, said a senior federal security official this…