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I have to wonder how many corporations have been hacked but we will never know, because they are worried about the value of their stock. This could actually be a much greater threat to hobbling our infrastructure or blackmailing wealthy people to do their bidding.
I am pointing the finger at Microsoft for allowing bad security practice in windows kernel, architecture and other aspects of the Windows operating system. I am have to hand it to Microsoft for the good job security.<p>However without knowing the extent of the incident, and going off of this part:<p>"At this point, the investigation has found that the malware has been isolated to business networks only..."<p>It is more than likely this news story is overblown.
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Given the scope of the attack I think it’s reasonable to assume all high value targets were compromised in someway. It’s more a matter of what specifically was compromised, what data was exfiltrated, how much of the attack was offline, are Thunder going to start breaking a as la stuxnet etc.
How come this community of self-proclaimed hackers and independent thinkers are so quick to believe whatever "cyber-attack" related news that gets published?
With how widespread this event has been, I would wager that those scam emails saying they have "recorded you relieving yourself, and you must send X bitcoin or we'll expose you" must be true for at least one person at these agencies / companies.
Classified networks are typically air gapped.[1] Doubtful that hackers obtained anything useful.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gap_(networking)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gap_(networking)</a>
Bit of a misleading title by Reuters.<p>They accessed the business networks of the NNSA, the agency responsible for maintaining the nuclear stockpile, but did not access the networks managing the actual nuclear weapons, as the title half-implies.<p>There was no threat of random nuclear weapon exploits, those networks have not been compromised as far as we know.
Nobody worry: There's a security company named SolarWinds that has a lot of experience when it comes to getting hacked, and they've already got contracts with the Federal government. Working together, I'm sure the Feds & SolarWinds can leverage those existing relationships to help get to the bottom of this situation and make sure it never happens again.
Yes evidence, more evidence, just like the good ol' time that US had evidence from Nayirah, and Powell wielded a tube of wash powder in UN claiming that was WMD.<p>I do believe that President Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, because with so many evidences, his precedents, including our be-loving Obama, would have bombed the hell out of our designated enemy.
Stux to be them.<p>[1] - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet</a>
It seems that the U.S. approach to “cyber” defense is a complete shit show... I can’t imagine the level of incompetence and bureaucracy that led to this Solarwinds oversight - this is amateur hour stuff.
It feels like we're in the calm before the storm and nobody is watching the approaching squall.<p>China growing in power and influence, flexing itself on the global stage. The US waning internationally, citizens divided and full of hate.<p>We're factory-less, fab-less, and have fewer educated. Fewer consumers. Lots of debt.<p>We have SpaceX, but China's pace of exploration and international cooperation is increasing faster than NASA's.<p>The only advantage I can think of us our military and navy, but China has carrier-killers and ICBMs.<p>Zoomers on TikTok hate capitalism and the military, and it seems like they're being indoctrinated by an "algorithm". Or maybe it's the lack of opportunity we're providing for them.<p>If and when our tech companies and entertainment companies get leapfrogged, what will we have to export that brings us wealth?<p>What happens to democracy and liberty when the top economy and producer in the world is a single-party state?<p>I hope we're hacking back just as hard. That's what the NSA <i>should</i> be doing rather than domestic spying.