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		omgbobbyg on Jan 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SolarWinds: What Hit Us Could Hit Others As a citizen, I am shocked and appalled by this backdoor. As a software engineer, I can't help but marvel at the creativity and thoughtfulness put into the exploit.

f430 on Jan 12, 2021 [–]

The average engineer isn't an infosec expert and love automation so they found the weakest link in the chain: CI/CD

whydid on Jan 12, 2021 | [–]

We're not talking expert-level infosec here. They should have firewalled their CI systems. That's pretty basic stuff.

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