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At one point in 2019, somebody managed to hack the entire government of the United States and some of the country’s biggest corporations in one sweeping attack. How did they do that? Well, first they hacked SolarWinds - the company that supplied software to all those institutions and companies. In this installment of NoRollback, we look at how that was done.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:26 Baseline
06:20 Trigger
08:15 Execution
14:35 Post Mortem

Credits:
Producer: Ignas Žadeikis
Writer: Valius Venckūnas
Video Editing & Animation: Matas Paskačimas
Narration: Ben Mitchell
Thumbnail: Aurimas Danius
Supervising Producer: Aušra Venckutė

Special thanks to Stephen Eckels

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How the Entire US Government was Hacked: SolarWinds

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