[olug] Solar Winds Fallout

[Rob Townley]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 9:35 AM Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 8:58 AM Teale Sloterdijk <teale11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I still refuse to believe it was russia. Im thinking it’s a closer ally
>> that has the best hackers in the world, Israel.
>>
>> Just remember, it was wapo and nytimes who first came out with the russia
>> narrative, not our intelligence community and then all the other
>> publishers
>> took it and ran with it.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 08:46 Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Gets uglier and uglier.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> https://www.zdnet.com/article/solarwinds-the-more-we-learn-the-worse-it-looks/
>> >
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> Long before it was reported in neespapers, well known infosec people on
> twitter were pinning Russia.   For one, Russia wanted the vaccine recipes
> and they got them.
>
> My question is why were we so distracted in the first place to allow this
> to happen?
>
> Would it have happened if Windows did not require admin rights to develop
> and debug software?
>
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> Not saying infosec is certain it was Russia, I dont know if anyone knows.

What I am certain of is that Microsoft made it very difficult to develop
and debug using least privilege.
 The USA has never been weaker and worse - more divided.  “Putins Brain”
wrote this as an objective in 1997.