SolarWinds hackers could have been deterred by simple security measures, officials say

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Blocking all outgoing connections to the internet would have minimised the impact

Implementing basic security measures could have helped deter or minimise the massive SolarWinds hack that enabled threat actors to compromise at least nine government agencies and hundreds of priva...

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