Network Break 342: SolarWinds Back In Security Hot Seat; In Defense Of The Fax Machine

Take a Network Break! SolarWinds is back in the hot seat as Microsoft researchers discover an active exploit against SolarWinds Serv-U file transfer products. Meanwhile, SonicWall warns customers that a ransomware exploit is targeting end-of-life software on some of its products. NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks underwhelm with an announcement about using NVIDIA’s Bluefield-2 DPU to offload some network traffic from virtual instances of Palo Alto’s firewall software. Greg opines on the effects of inflation for IT project management, and Amazon snaps up a team of Facebook engineers that were working on a now-defunct satellite broadband project. Last but not least, Japanese bureaucrats who refuse to relinquish their fax machines are stymieing the government’s digital transformation. Sponsor: Itential Itential is network and cloud automation. Itential’s software makes it easy for network teams to get insights into your entire infrastructure, immediately detect non-compliant assets for rapid remediation, and manage and deploy changes across both CLI & API infrastructure. Find out more at www.itential.com/packetpushers. Tech Bytes: AppNeta Stay tuned after the news for a sponsored Tech Bytes conversation with AppNeta. As organizations figure out how to make distributed work a more permanent feature, IT needs to be prepared to support both remote and on-prem workers for the foreseeable future. We talk with AppNeta about instrumenting application performance management to support a hybrid work environment. Show Links: Serv-U Remote Memory Escape Vulnerability – SolarWinds SolarWinds 0-day gave Chinese hackers privileged access to customer servers – Ars Technica Urgent Security Notice: Critical Risk to Unpatched End-of-Life SRA & SMA 8.x Remote Access Devices – SonicWall NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks Boost Cyber Defenses with DPU Acceleration – NVIDIA Facebook’s satellite internet team joins Amazon – The Verge Japanese fax fans rally to defence of much-maligned machine – The Guardian Hanko Stamp – Seal (East Asia) – Wikipedia