2021-01-11
SolarWinds Hires Krebs and Stamos; FBI Investigating JetBrains as Possible Victim
SolarWinds has hired Christopher Krebs, former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Alex Stamos, former Facebook CISO, to help manage the aftermath of the discovery of the supply-chain attack affecting the SolarWinds Orion management tool. In a related story, the FBI is investigating the possibility that Czech software company JetBrains may have been a victim of the SolarWinds attack as well.
Editor's Note
Indications are that the JetBrains TeamCity connection was misconfigured rather than compromised and provided a path into SolarWinds code repository.

Lee Neely
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ZDNet: SolarWinds hires Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos as part of security review
The Register: SolarWinds takes a leaf out of Zoom's book, hires A-Team of Stamos and Krebs to sort out its security woes
Wired: Security News This Week: The SolarWinds Investigation Ramps Up