Cisco hacked through SolarWinds as tech casualties mount

Source:-https://www.crn.com.au Internal machines used by Cisco researchers were targeted via SolarWinds as the impact of the colossal hacking campaign on the tech sector becomes apparent, Bloomberg reported. Roughly two dozen computers in a Cisco lab were compromised through malicious updates to SolarWinds’ Orion network monitoring platform, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the incident. The San Jose, Calif.-based networking giant told CRN its security team moved quickly to address the issue, and that there isn’t currently any known impact

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Docker Database Hacked, 190,000 Users Affected

Source:- tomshardware.com Docker, a development platform that allows companies to “build, manage and secure all their applications” and “deploy them anywhere,” announced last week that it discovered a database hack that exposed the information of 190,000 users. The hackers collected usernames, hashed passwords and in some cases GitHub and Bitbucket access tokens used to access repositories on the popular Git platforms many developers use for version control. Those whose usernames and hashed passwords were hacked got off relatively easy. Usually, it’s

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