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The last brief filed by attorney Matthew DePerno is available here:
https://www.depernolaw.com/uploads/2/7/0/2/27029178/[2]_brief_response_to_motion_for_summary_disp.pdf
The brief references expert testimony by James Penrose and Ben Cotton that the Dominion machines were online with remnants of IP addresses found from Germany and Taiwan. (pg. 11) The brief also referenced CyberNinjas stating that MS SQL Server Management Studio was found on the county system, which was unauthorized. (pg. 12) DePerno calls that software "a hacking tool".

If you read the Penrose and Cotton audits and you are technically inclined you'll find much more details. Yes they did found two IPs in unallocated disk space on the Linux OS that runs the Dominion ICX touch screen voting machine. What's funny is the while the touchscreen voting machines do have an ethernet card there didn't exist any infrastructure in any of the precincts to plug them in to and the Dominion software on the machine doesn't support it. The ballots from the ICX voting machine are saved on a USB drive and that is what is loaded to the county EMS server. So where did these stray IPs come from. I'm guessing they come from the manufacturer or distributor of the machine running tests to check if the ethernet ports actually work. Then they wiped the drives.

But how to explain the non-existent ethernet connections though? :-)

SQL Server Management Studio
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is a software application first launched with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 that is used for configuring, managing, and administering all components within Microsoft SQL Server. It is the successor to the Enterprise Manager in SQL 2000 or before. The tool includes both script editors and graphical tools which work with objects and features of the server.[2]
A central feature of SSMS is the Object Explorer, which allows the user to browse, select, and act upon any of the objects within the server.[3] It also shipped a separate Express edition that could be freely downloaded, however recent versions of SSMS are fully capable of connecting to and manage any SQL Server Express instance. Microsoft also incorporated backwards compatibility for older versions of SQL Server thus allowing a newer version of SSMS to connect to older versions of SQL Server instances. It also comes with Microsoft SQL Server Express 2012, or users can download it separately.
Starting from version 11, the application was based on the Visual Studio 2010 shell, using WPF for the user interface. Versions 18 and after are based on the Visual Studio 2017 Isolated Shell.[4]
In June 2015, Microsoft announced their intention to release future versions of SSMS independently of SQL Server database engine releases.[5]