White House Warns of Hack of Microsoft’s Outlook Email Program March 8, 2021 By Jeff Mason The White House on Sunday urged computer network operators to take further steps to gauge whether their systems were targeted...
Global Power Grids Are Becoming Increasingly Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks March 4, 2021 More than five years after massive cyber attacks left a quarter of a million Ukrainians without electricity, the world’s power...
Senator Says Microsoft Failed to Fix Cloud Software Issue Used by SolarWinds Hackers February 26, 2021 By Joseph Menn Microsoft Corp.’s failure to fix known problems with its cloud software facilitated the massive SolarWinds hack that compromised at least...
SolarWinds Attackers Focused on Cyber and Tech Firms January 29, 2021 By Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius Whether it was opportunity, strategy or sheer chutzpah, the suspected Russian hackers behind a massive cyber-attack revealed last month focused...
Russian Spy Tools Linked to SolarWinds Hack, Says Cyber Security Firm Kaspersky January 11, 2021 By Jack Stubbs The group behind a global cyber-espionage campaign discovered last month deployed malicious computer code with links to spying tools previously...
Cyber Experts Race to Secure Networks Following Broad Cyber Attack on U.S. December 21, 2020 By Jack Stubbs Russian hackers who broke into U.S. government agencies also spied on less high-profile organizations, including groups in Britain, a U.S....
Suspected Russian Hack of U.S. Government: Espionage or Act of War? December 21, 2020 By Jan Wolfe and Brendan Pierson The suspected Russian hack of U.S. government agencies has led to heated rhetoric from lawmakers, with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin...
How Dominance of One Management Software Became Cyber Liability for U.S. December 16, 2020 By Raphael Satter, Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn On an earnings call two months ago, SolarWinds Chief Executive Kevin Thompson touted how far the company had gone during...
Russia-Backed Hackers Behind Most Nation-State Cyber Attacks: Microsoft October 2, 2020 By Alyza Sebenius Russia-based hackers are responsible for the majority of nation-state attacks on Microsoft customers, according to new data from company. Microsoft...
U.S. Warns Partners, Industrial Firms About Russian Hacking Operation May 29, 2020 By Christopher Bing The U.S. National Security Agency on Thursday warned government partners and private companies about a Russian hacking operation that uses...