{"id":73398,"date":"2020-12-17T13:40:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T18:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=73398"},"modified":"2020-12-19T12:21:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T17:21:05","slug":"the-hack-that-shook-washington-krazit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/12\/17\/the-hack-that-shook-washington-krazit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hack That Shook Washington [Krazit]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protocol.com\/newsletters\/cloud\/solarwinds-hack-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73399\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/TheHackThatShookWashington-12-16-20.jpg\" alt=\"The Hack That Shook Washington -- by Tom Krazit\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/TheHackThatShookWashington-12-16-20.jpg 920w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/TheHackThatShookWashington-12-16-20-150x92.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/TheHackThatShookWashington-12-16-20-768x470.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protocol.com\/newsletters\/cloud\/solarwinds-hack-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Hack That Shook Washington<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from protocol.com by Tom Krazit<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A cybersecurity nightmare is unfolding in the nation&#8217;s capital as the fallout from one of the most brazen security breaches in recent memory continues to spread throughout several government agencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The internal networks belonging to no less than five government agencies, including the Defense and State Departments,\u00a0were left wide open to a group of hackers\u00a0believed to be working on behalf of Russia for several months this year, according to multiple reports and tacit confirmation of a breach from government officials earlier this week. This incident was especially scary because no one seems to know exactly how much data was accessed or stolen, and because those affected may never know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The incident also highlights the vulnerability of the software supply chain<\/strong>, an important part of modern application development. Here&#8217;s what we know:<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Addendum on 12\/19\/20:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90588411\/a-moment-of-reckoning-microsofts-president-sounds-a-dire-warning-after-the-solarwinds-cyberattack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-73410 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SolarWindsCyberattack-Dec2020.jpg\" alt=\"Brad Smith, President of Microsoft&quot; This is a moment of reckoning (referring to the Solar Winds cyberattack)\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SolarWindsCyberattack-Dec2020.jpg 623w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SolarWindsCyberattack-Dec2020-147x150.jpg 147w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hack That Shook Washington &#8212; from protocol.com by Tom Krazit Excerpt: A cybersecurity nightmare is unfolding in the nation&#8217;s capital as the fallout from one of the most brazen security breaches in recent memory continues to spread throughout several government agencies. The internal networks belonging to no less than five government agencies, including the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285,454,195,321,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation-legislatures","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-united-states","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73412,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73398\/revisions\/73412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}