Mighty Solar Winds - DTNS 3926

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A breach in the Orion network management platform from a company called Solar Winds has led to attacks on FireEye, Microsoft and several US government agencies. Solar Winds said Sunday that updates to its Orion platform between March and June may have carried malware as a result of a sophisticated nation-state supply-chain attack. We unpack what exactly happened.

Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Peter Wells, Keith Townsend, Roger Chang, Joe.

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0:00.0	A tech demo shows off the usual tech things.
0:03.7	Then I'm going to jump to a link using the usual tech devices.
0:07.0	We have a pointing device called a mouse.
0:09.0	Doing the usual tech productivity tasks.
0:11.4	Now we're connected audio. You can see my work, you can point at it, and I can see
0:15.7	your face and we can talk. Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda for the
0:20.5	next half century, then almost immediately be ignored.
0:24.4	The mother of all demos on NOAA Little More.
0:27.6	Get it wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.8	Attention. Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in
0:40.6	Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.
0:44.0	So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.
0:49.0	Trains, now on Uber.
0:50.7	Tees and sees apply.
0:51.6	Check the Uber app.
0:52.4	Now and Then.
0:56.6	The Last Beatless Song.
1:03.0	Out now.
1:07.0	Out now. Coming up on DTS, Amazon and Apple launch new fitness products.
1:14.0	Reddit goes head to head with Tik-Toc and one of the biggest cyber attacks on government
1:18.0	and corporations possibly ever.
1:20.0	This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, December 14, 2020 in Los Angeles.
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