From 3fe3e441098964b4bfe83a3f01a337add1daaa2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brendan McDevitt Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 04:24:49 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] removed some personal things that were not on point with what i was trying to say --- _security/2020-12-17-thoughts-on-solarwinds.markdown | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/_security/2020-12-17-thoughts-on-solarwinds.markdown b/_security/2020-12-17-thoughts-on-solarwinds.markdown index 3fd1709..525fcbc 100644 --- a/_security/2020-12-17-thoughts-on-solarwinds.markdown +++ b/_security/2020-12-17-thoughts-on-solarwinds.markdown @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ have compromised many of the internal government networks and work is ongoing to investigate the damage of companies and government agencies alike. As I am fairly fresh into a new security research position at [Kenna Security](https://www.kennasecurity.com/) -I want to begin this with a realization that targeted hacking has been going on for years. Me being a civilian, I have limited insight into the true nature of the intelligence operations that are constantly occurring across both the civilian/corporate internet and militarized networks. But I still do understand that this is something that is constantly occurring and one of the prime motivators for me to start learning about this space. I wanted to understand how the world works, and who controls the computers that control everything. +I want to begin this with a realization that targeted hacking has been going on for years. Information control is everything in the world today, and the United States intelligence agencies have developed the systems to capture and collect @@ -25,11 +25,10 @@ incident response teams and really really skilled hackers and programmers to try rebuild things in a much more secure manner and track the nation state hackers footprints. -I will be doing my best to start to better track down threat actors around the -internet. Everybody in this space that is responsbile for securing +Everybody in this space that is responsbile for securing infrastructure needs to always have a paranoid mindset and understand the realization of the world that we are in today. SolarWinds will not be the first -example of this as we the future continue to unfold. +example of this as the future unfolds. ### Source list: - [FireEye Advisory](https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages-solarwinds-supply-chain-compromises-with-sunburst-backdoor.html)