![]() You focus on investigative cybersecurity stories. Joseph Menn, you’re the technology projects reporter at Reuters. There aren’t a lot of easy answers here, but it’s clear that change is coming with the Biden administration.īelow is a lightly edited excerpt from our conversation. And it raises a lot of questions about how to respond to such a massive attack and the responsibility of the private sector when it comes to national security. The SolarWinds hack hasn’t really gotten the attention it deserves because it happened during the chaos after the presidential election - but it’s a big deal. We discuss what this breach means for US security and the companies in SolarWinds’ supply chain that might have been affected. On today’s episode of Decoder, I’m joined by Joseph Menn, a reporter at Reuters who focuses on cybersecurity investigations and the author of the new book Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World. ![]() This access was then used to breach everything from Microsoft to US government agencies, including the US Treasury and departments of Homeland Security, State, Defense, and Commerce. A group of hackers, likely from the Russian government, had gotten into a network management company called SolarWinds and infiltrated its customers’ networks. In December, details came out on one of the most massive breaches of US cybersecurity in recent history. ![]()
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