President-elect Joe Biden called for political leaders at certain agencies to stop blocking transition efforts to avoid leaving gaps adversaries could exploit.
“As I said last week — this attack constitutes a grave risk to our national security. And we need to close the gap between where our capabilities are now and where they need to be to better deter, detect, disrupt, and respond to these sorts of intrusions in the future,” Biden said in prepared remarks after briefings from his national security agency review teams.
Biden sees cybersecurity as an area Republicans and Democrats can work together to address, but his transition team faces roadblocks from the Trump administration. He specifically called out the political leadership at the Defense Department and the Office of Management and Budget for preventing his team from getting budget and security information.
“Right now, we just aren’t getting all the information that we need from the outgoing administration in key national security areas,” he said. “It’s nothing short of irresponsible.”
SolarWinds’ updated security advisory shares details on two different issues with its Orion platform. The company said it has removed software builds known to be affected by the SUNBURST vulnerability—which sparked the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s emergency directive—from its download sites and continues to work to determine whether non-Orion products are affected.
The company also acknowledged SUPERNOVA malware, which Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 disclosed in research and say could point to a second hacking group. The SUPERNOVA malware is separate from the supply chain attack but is designed to look like it’s p ..
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