CISA has found several initial access vectors used by the SolarWinds attackers, including abusing legitimate accounts and forging SAML tokens.
The number of SolarWinds Orion servers online is rising in the past week, possibly a result of misconfigurations as customers work to patch after the breach.
Citrix has released software mitigations to help prevent DDoS attacks using its ADC and Gateway appliances.
The SolarWinds attackers had access to some Microsoft source code repositories, but did not have the ability to change them, the company said.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds prefers AMD processors because of the chip company's unofficial support for ECC memory, something Intel has chosen not to offer for its non-server processors.
The Emotet malware has begun spreading again after one of its periodic breaks, using Christmas and COVID lures.
A group of security and technology vendors, non-profit groups, and other organizations have formed a coalition to tackle the impact of ransomware on various industry sectors such as government, education, healthcare, and other critical verticals. The Ransomware Task Force will release a standard framework addressing how to deal with attacks.
Attackers have increasingly targeted the software supply chain by populating package managers such as RubyGems and npm with malicious code.
The editors of Decipher have put together a list of books, technical and otherwise, you can enjoy during a well-deserved holiday break.
CISA said the attackers behind the SolarWinds compromise used other infection vectors to access some victims' networks.
Some news for security operations teams investigating their networks for signs that nation-state attackers had deployed the Sunburst malware via the SolarWinds' Orion network monitoring technology: FireEye has identified a killswitch that would stop the malware from executing in infected networks.
Completely recovering from the effects of the breach of SolarWinds could take months for some customers.
Attackers planted a compromised update for the SolarWinds Orion platform, leading to a cyber espionage campaign that hit many companies and government agencies.
Facebook has disrupted attacks on its platform it attributes to APT32, a group based in Vietnam.
Haroon Meer, founder of Thinkst, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about why a lot of security products don't work, the challenges of running a security company from South Africa, and doing well by doing good.