Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 5/6/23
Inside the SolarWinds hack, MPS' ransomware attack devastation, Phishing training shortfalls, Sec. 702 outcome should worry CISOs, TikTok's algorithm dangers, Protecting kids from social media
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The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack Ever
Kim Zetter in Wired tells an insider story of the supply chain hack of business software supplier SolarWinds attributed to Russia’s SVR intelligence agency, first publicly revealed in December 2020, weaving a tale from the hack’s first undisclosed discovery in May 2020 by a Justice Department unaware of its importance through today, when the massive implications of the widespread incident still remain unknown.
BACK AT MANDIANT, workers were frantically trying to address what to do about the tools the hackers had stolen that were designed to expose weak spots in c…
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