The US Senate is grilling Microsoft and SolarWinds over last year's historic cyberattack
SolarWinds Corp. banner hangs at the New York Stock Exchange on the IPO day of the company in New York.
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US Senators are questioning the tech firms involved in last year's sweeping cyberattack.
SolarWinds, Microsoft, FireEye, and CrowdStrike are all testifying in the Tuesday hearing, which you can livestream below.
Hackers installed malware into SolarWinds' software, which was then distributed to the firm's clients.
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The US Senate is questioning SolarWinds and other tech firms in a hearing Tuesday after unknown attackers, with suspected links to Russia , infiltrated the company's software last year, compromising thousands of organizations including major federal agencies. SolarWinds is joined in the hearing by FireEye, a cybersecurity firm that first discovered the malware in December , as well as Microsoft, whose president, Brad Smith, will be present in the proceedings. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz will also testify; his...
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