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2020年12月17日 星期四

一家鮮為人知但無處不在的軟體公司SolarWinds Inc. 疑似俄羅斯所為的網絡攻擊源頭



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SolarWinds Inc.

Type Public
Traded as

NYSE: SWI
Russell 1000 Index component
Industry Software
Genre Network monitoring
Founded 1999; 21 years ago in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Founders

Donald Yonce
David Yonce
Headquarters
Austin, Texas,
U.S.

Key people Kevin Thompson (CEO, 2010 - 2020-12-07),[1] Sudhakar Ramakrishna (CEO, 2020-12-07 - present)[1]
Products

Network Performance Monitor
Server & Application Monitor
Access Rights Manager
Network Configuration Manager
NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
Database Performance Analyzer
Security Event Manager
Server Configuration Monitor
Revenue US$938.5 million (2019)[2]

Number of employees c. 3,200[3] (2020)
Website solarwinds.com


SolarWinds Inc. is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. SolarWinds is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with sales and product development offices in a number of locations in the United States and several other countries around the world.[4] The company was publicly traded from May 2009 until the end of 2015, and again from October 2018. It has also acquired a number of companies, some of which it still operates under their original brand names including Pingdom, Papertrail, and Loggly.[5]


Contents
1History
2Acquisitions
32020 supply chain attack
4References
5External links











疑似俄羅斯所為的網絡攻擊源頭:一家鮮為人知但無處不在的軟體公司
一家鮮為人知的軟體公司SolarWinds提供了許多公司用來管理其計算機網絡的工具,這就是此次駭客攻擊如此致命的原因所在。
Robert McMillan2020年12月17日08:00 CST 更新


美國政府和一些美國大型企業遭遇了大規模且長達數月的駭客攻擊,此次網絡攻擊在實施過程中利用了一個看起來不太可能的「源頭」:總部位於得克薩斯州奧斯汀的鮮為人知的軟體公司SolarWinds Inc. (SWI)。在本周之前,只有計算機網絡管理員聽到過這家公司的名字。

安全調查人員表示,SolarWinds自稱財富500強企業中有400多家公司都是其客戶,許多政府機構也是其客戶,這樣一家公司為俄羅斯對外情報局精心實施一場入侵行動提供了完美的傳送機制。

在此次事件中,駭客瞄準的軟體是大多數企業的基礎軟體,但通常不受關注,主要供維護計算機網絡和軟體正常運行的技術人員使用。行業研究公司國際數據公司(International Data Corporation, 簡稱IDC)的副總裁埃利奧特(Stephen...

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