SolarWinds

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2020
US Agencies and FireEye were hacked with a supply chain attack on SolarWinds Software

Hackers broke into the networks of federal agencies and FireEye by compromising SolarWinds’ Orion Network Management Products. The cyber espionage group has tampered with updates released by IT company SolarWinds, which provides its products to government agencies, military, and intelligence offices, two people familiar with the matter told the Reuters agency.  Nation-state actors, allegedly Russia-linked […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2018
Spectre/Meltdown patches had a significant impact on SolarWinds’s AWS infrastructure

Analysis conducted by SolarWinds on the impact on the performance of the Spectre/Meltdown patches on its own Amazon Web Services infrastructure revealed serious performance degradation. SolarWinds, the vendor of IT Management Software & Monitoring Tools, has analyzed the impact on the performance of Meltdown and Spectre security patches on its own Amazon Web Services infrastructure. The […]