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When the software that runs your network that you trust to provide security is compromised,

it's a very bad day.

We may not learn for some time the extent of this likely Russian-led attack on American network security, Cato's

Julian Sanchez describes what we do know now. I think the full impact of this is going to

take quite a while to fully assess. But what we know now is that a supply chain attack, which I'll explain in a second,

mounted by a very sophisticated adversary.

Attack has been widely attributed to Russian intelligence.

Was able to compromise a very widely used piece of network management

software, the Orion package produced by a company called Solar Winds

based out of Austin, Texas.

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