Solarwinds Hack explained in 5 minutes in lamens terms.
Confused about what happened with solarwinds and the us government getting hacked? Cybersecuirty Expert gives a great analogy for you to understand what happened.
Solarwinds is a company that provides a tool used by IT departments called Orion network monitoring tool. Attackers compromised the software update mechanism and then used it to infect government and fortune 100 customers who installed a backdoored version of the company’s Orion network management tool.
Shoutout to @Alysc Studjo for the idea!
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