Posted on 12/13/2020 10:49:35 PM PST by bitt
WASHINGTON – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) tonight issued Emergency Directive 21-01, in response to a known compromise involving SolarWinds Orion products that are currently being exploited by malicious actors. This Emergency Directive calls on all federal civilian agencies to review their networks for indicators of compromise and disconnect or power down SolarWinds Orion products immediately.
“The compromise of SolarWinds’ Orion Network Management Products poses unacceptable risks to the security of federal networks,” said CISA Acting Director Brandon Wales. “Tonight’s directive is intended to mitigate potential compromises within federal civilian networks, and we urge all our partners—in the public and private sectors—to assess their exposure to this compromise and to secure their networks against any exploitation.”
This is the fifth Emergency Directive issued by CISA under the authorities granted by Congress in the Cybersecurity Act of 2015. All agencies operating SolarWinds products should provide a completion report to CISA by 12pm Eastern Standard Time on Monday December 14, 2020.
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Drones?
Had to search a bit to find out what these products are.
SolarWinds Orion products, wonder how much of our government is affected by this vonerability.
If you find a federal department or agency that has no leak, give it time we apperently have them on back order (insert facepalm here).
breaking news?
Ouch... not good.
ATT, Comcast, and Gates are on the list...
I had nothing to do with the breach — but given the opportunity... ;)
no Orion on this page...but presumably this is another RussiaRussiaRussia story:
Wikipedia: SolarWinds
The Washington Post, on December 13, 2020, reported that multiple government agencies “...were breached through a network management system called Solar Winds, according to three people familiar with the matter...” It was reported, but not confirmed, that APT29, aka Cozy Bear, working for the Russian foreign intelligence service, SVR, attacked via a Solar Winds product...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarWinds
What’s going on?
China?
Is this related to the Treasury hack?
Wikipedia?
Russia another smokescreen
Something else is going on
Hmmm...
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Its an excuse to wipe evidence. The Dominion release is coming tomorrow. They need to destroy any trace. Thats what this is about
I had a feeling in my gut that this is what was happening!! I hope they have downloaded all the proof onto thumb drives!!
Federal Reserve...interesting. The foreign actors could try to hack it and cause a mass economic panic.
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