In case you’ve been too busy being insecure over your Holiday Gift choices, the COVID-19 virus, or the 2020 Election results here’s something really big you may have missed:
Sometime between March and June 2020 Perhaps as early as October, 2019 a computer company called SolarWinds apparently updated a portion of their Orion software – used to monitor computer networks running under Microsoft Windows – with a software file called “SolarWinds.Orion.Core.BusinessLayer.dll” which might have contained a error.
The error allowed one or more “foreign actors” to exploit the error in the software, load malicious programs called SUNBURST, SUPERNOVA, and CosmicGale, and hack into the computer data networks of various US Government Agencies and perhaps thousands of companies.
…perhaps 140 or more Firms, Cities, and Government Agencies….hacked.
…perhaps up to 425 of the world’s Fortune 500 Companies….hacked.
But, in the midst of perhaps the most devastating computer attack ever known, this fact should make you feel oh-so-secure:
- The 2020 National Election….“the most secure in American history.“
Now, doesn’t that make you feel more secure in the 2020 Election results? Are you sure?
Thanks for Reading!