Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, April 14th, 2021.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

The FBI hacked into some exchange servers to prevent further hacking of Exchange servers.

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Boston Dynamics robot dogs have been spotted on the streets of New York City.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. The U.S. Department of Justice has

revealed that the FBI performed a court-approved operation to copy and

remove malicious web shells on hundreds of exchange servers across the US. In case of those words

don't make a ton of sense to you on First Blush, basically the FBI just

logged into hundreds of private exchange servers with court authorization to proactively

undo stuff put into those servers by hackers who had earlier penetrated the servers, quoting

motherboard. In short, the FBI obtained earlier penetrated the servers, quoting Motherboard.

In short, the FBI obtained permission to access computers to remove artifacts of an earlier

high profile hacking operation in order to prevent further access to those machines by hackers.

The action is in a response to a hacking campaign earlier in the year

which leveraged vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server.

Multiple hacking groups use these security flaws to break into Exchange Server. Multiple hacking groups use these security flaws

to break into Exchange servers,

in some cases stealing victims emails.

A suspected Chinese hacking group led the way,

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