16 Minutes #53 Anatomy of a Hack: SolarWinds and Ripples Beyond

By Andreessen Horowitz - 2021-02-01

Description

We cover the SolarWinds hack, one of the largest known hacks of all time... and the ripple effects are only now starting to be revealed, especially given latest news reports from the U.S. government. ...

Summary

  • In this special “3x”-long episode of our (otherwise shortform) news analysis show 16 Minutes — past such 2-3X explainer episodes have covered section 230, Tiktok, GPT-3, the opioid crisis, more — we cover the SolarWinds hack, one of the largest (if not the largest!)
  • So who was compromised, do they even know, can they even know?!
  • But how did they know it was the same group?

 

Topics

  1. Security (0.14)
  2. Management (0.12)
  3. NLP (0.1)

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