{"id":168396,"date":"2021-02-24T09:07:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T14:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=168396"},"modified":"2021-02-24T13:29:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T18:29:05","slug":"senate-grills-tech-executives-on-solarwinds-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-grills-tech-executives-on-solarwinds-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate grills tech executives on SolarWinds hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-grills-tech-executives-on-solarwinds-hack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=168396&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2377958\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2377958\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2377958 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21054758564959-655x437.jpg\" alt=\"FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia, SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna and Microsoft President Brad Smith testify during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021 in Washington. (Drew Angerer\/Photo via AP)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2377958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia, SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna and Microsoft President Brad Smith testify during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021 in Washington. (Drew Angerer\/Photo via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:27 AM PT \u2013 Wednesday, February 24, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Senate recently pressed high-level tech officials on last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarwinds.com\/?&#038;CMP=KNC-TAD-GGL-SW_NA_X_PP_CPC_LD_EN_PRODE_TIN-ENTEXP-10937545351~107078806203_g_c_solarwinds-e~459187120546~~p56714859729&#038;ds_cid=71700000071330414&#038;ds_agid=58700006277084429&#038;network=g&#038;device=c&#038;keyword=Solarwinds&#038;matchtype=e&#038;creative=459187120546&#038;feeditemid=&#038;gclid=Cj0KCQiAj9iBBhCJARIsAE9qRtCjHF7FXvOxDcOWrdj4oUpM3GC6_Q9pze75PyVToxEM_qUvKePtt1EaAltZEALw_wcB&#038;gclsrc=aw.ds\">SolarWinds<\/a> cyber attack. On Tuesday, executives for SolarWinds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/\">Microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireeye.com\/\">FyreEye<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdstrike.com\/\">CrowdStrike<\/a> spoke with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The SolarWinds hack, which was discovered last year, has been found to have compromised thousands of federal and private organizations. Although it\u2019s still unknown exactly who was behind the attack, it\u2019s largely suspected the hackers were affiliated with the Russian government.<\/p>\n<p>According to experts, the hackers were able to open a back-door into organization\u2019s systems. This allowed them to steal important credentials in order to gain access to everything in their networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNotably, the threat actor took advantage of systemic weaknesses in the (Microsoft) Windows authentication architecture, allowing it to move laterally within the network as well as between the network,\u201d explained CrowdStrike Chief Executive George Kurtz. \u201cAnd the cloud by creating false credentials, impersonating legitimate users and bypassing multi-factor authentication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine almost a secret door in your house and the first thing that happens when they come to that secret door is all your keys are right there,\u201d described FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia. \u201cThey just grab them and now they can get into any locks you have in your house, the same way your people do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft President Brad Smith made it the most apparent of those who testified that he fully believes the attack was of Russian origin. The attack started in March of last year and reportedly continued for months before being detected.<\/p>\n<p>During his testimony, Smith said he believes one of the biggest challenges in identifying the hack was that the compromised information was stored in multiple places across several companies and agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to enhance the sharing of threat intelligence. Now, that\u2019s the term in the cybersecurity community for information about attacks that people are seeing,\u201d he stated. \u201cAnd our basic challenge today is that that information too often exists in silos; it exists in silos in the government, it exists in different companies, it doesn\u2019t come together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith added, the full scale of the attack hasn\u2019t even been uncovered yet as more information comes to light.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I appreciated the opportunity to address technology &#038; its impact on national security before Congress. It\u2019s clear our nation needs stronger cyber defenses, agile procurement, more digital skills, &#038; tighter partnership between the gov\u2019t and tech sector.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2VSrxCmZVm\">https:\/\/t.co\/2VSrxCmZVm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brad Smith (@BradSmi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BradSmi\/status\/1364618826600615938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/china-seeking-to-redefine-human-rights-in-pursuit-of-socialist-goals\/\">China seeking to redefine human rights in pursuit of socialist goals<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274134,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21054758564959-655x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate grills tech executives on SolarWinds hack","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/AP21054758564959-655x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate grills tech executives on SolarWinds hack","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}