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Ride The Lightning (RTL) Blog Featured In E-Discovery Today

January 19, 2021

A recent blog post by Doug Austin of E-discovery Today entitled “ This May Be the Hack of All Hacks: Cybersecurity Trends”, featured Sensei’s Sharon Nelson’s Ride the Lightning blog.

Excerpt:

In the movie Men in Black, Rosenburg, a dying Arquilian, tells Jay that the “Arquilian Galaxy is on Orion’s Belt”.  This Orion may have led a galaxy’s worth of organization hacks – more than 425 of the Fortune 500 list of top companies; all of the top 10 telecommunications companies; all five branches of the military; and all of the top five accounting firms as part of 300,000 global customers potentially impacted, which also include UK government agencies and private sector companies.

As Sharon Nelson reports in her excellent blog Ride the Lightning, the United States Department of Commerce, Treasury, State Department, National Institutes of Health, Homeland Security, and the Pentagon are all included in the list of organizations that have had their networks compromised.

The unwitting source seems to be enterprise monitoring software company SolarWinds.  According to the Austin, TX based company, hackers “inserted a vulnerability within its Orion monitoring products which, if present and activated, could potentially allow an attacker to compromise the server on which the Orion products run.”

Read Doug’s post here. 

Read the RTL blog post here.