Posted on Dec 28, 2020
Calling SolarWinds Hack ‘Act Of War’ Just Makes It Worse
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The massive hack of federal and private networks isn’t an act of war by any definition, experts agree. It’s a staggering intelligence disaster. So how do we prevent it happening again?
Why is this hack so bad? Hackers believed to be working for the KGB’s successor agency, the SVR, slipped malware into a regular update to SolarWinds’ widely used cybersecurity software. That gave them backdoors into every network using those SolarWinds tools, from private companies to the Pentagon to the builder and maintainer of nuclear weapons.
Why is this hack so bad? Hackers believed to be working for the KGB’s successor agency, the SVR, slipped malware into a regular update to SolarWinds’ widely used cybersecurity software. That gave them backdoors into every network using those SolarWinds tools, from private companies to the Pentagon to the builder and maintainer of nuclear weapons.
Calling SolarWinds Hack ‘Act Of War’ Just Makes It Worse
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Nice share Lt Col Charlie Brown … By definition a "network" is designed to transmit and receive information. Hackers target easy targets, and many of them find vulnerabilities that developers missed in creation of their applications & programs. Information can be encrypted, but many hackers & their tools are able to break some encryptions.
There has to be a rethinking on how to operate on computer networks, in my opinion such as "IP Hopping" much like Frequency hoping on Army radios where information is disguised and encrypted at the same time.
Or a totally new and enclosed networks that are set up as "line of sight" and transmitted via lasers from one point to another for secure communication. A totally separate network, apart from the internet is the only way to guarantee you can't be hacked. That's my $0.02 worth...!
There has to be a rethinking on how to operate on computer networks, in my opinion such as "IP Hopping" much like Frequency hoping on Army radios where information is disguised and encrypted at the same time.
Or a totally new and enclosed networks that are set up as "line of sight" and transmitted via lasers from one point to another for secure communication. A totally separate network, apart from the internet is the only way to guarantee you can't be hacked. That's my $0.02 worth...!
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Remember when agencies such as DoD made their own software (at great expense) in order to prevent this exact thing from happening?
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