{"id":117235,"date":"2020-12-17T01:22:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T09:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/suspected-russian-cyberattack-began-with-ubiquitous-software-company"},"modified":"2020-12-17T01:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T09:22:39","slug":"suspected-russian-cyberattack-began-with-ubiquitous-software-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/suspected-russian-cyberattack-began-with-ubiquitous-software-company","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Russian Cyberattack Began With Ubiquitous Software Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/suspected-russian-cyberattack-began-with-ubiquitous-software-company.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The widespread and monthslong hack of the U.S. government and some of America\u2019s biggest corporations was enabled by an unlikely source: a little-known Austin, Texas, software company called SolarWinds Corp. that until this week was a household name only to computer network administrators.<\/p>\n<p>Security investigators say the company that boasts more than 400 of the Fortune 500 corporations and many government agencies as clients provided the perfect delivery mechanism for a carefully executed intrusion attributed to Russia\u2019s foreign-intelligence service.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SolarWinds provides the tools many companies use to manage their computer networks. That\u2019s what made the hack of U.S. government agencies and some of America\u2019s biggest corporations so pernicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The widespread and monthslong hack of the U.S. government and some of America\u2019s biggest corporations was enabled by an unlikely source: a little-known Austin, Texas, software company called SolarWinds Corp. that until this week was a household name only to computer network administrators. Security investigators say the company that boasts more than 400 of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}