Internet Protocol
Communication protocol that allows connections between networks
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| March 22 2025 |
Web server software
lighttpd web server releases version 1.4.78
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| February 2025 | SolarWinds announced it would be acquired by private equity firm Turn/River Capital for $4.4 billion, with approval from majority shareholders Thoma Bravo and Silver Lake. |
| February 19 2025 |
Web server software
Mongoose web server releases version 7.17
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| February 5 2025 |
Web server software
Nginx web server releases version 1.26.3
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| January 23 2025 |
Web server software
Apache HTTP Server releases its latest stable version 2.4.63
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| June 13 2024 |
Web server software
Hiawatha web server releases version 11.6
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| June 2 2024 |
Web server software
Caddy web server releases version 2.8.4
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| February 2024 | Usenet daily posting volume reached a new peak of 274.49 TiB with 400.24 million daily posts. |
| February 22 2024 |
ConnectWise ScreenConnect
Version 6 of the self-hosted edition server application of ScreenConnect reported a vulnerability. A patch was made available for the latest version (23) on the same day, offering a temporary free upgrade.
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| October 16 2023 |
Web server software
Apache Tomcat releases version 10.1.15
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| September 19 2023 |
Web server software
IBM HTTP Server releases version 9.0.5.17
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| August 2023 | Usenet daily posting volume dramatically rose to 220.00 TiB with 279.16 million daily posts. |
| May 18 2023 |
Web server software
BusyBox httpd releases version 1.36.1
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| May 15 2023 |
ConnectWise ScreenConnect
ConnectWise Control was rebranded back to ConnectWise ScreenConnect.
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| November 2022 | SolarWinds settled the class action lawsuit for $26 million and was notified by the SEC of potential enforcement action. |
| March 2022 | A judge ruled that the class action lawsuit against SolarWinds could proceed, rejecting the company's attempt to have the case dismissed. |
| February 13 2022 |
Web server software
GlassFish releases version 6.2.5
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| November 2021 | Microsoft issued an alert about Nobelium targeting cloud service providers, managed service providers, and other IT service providers, following the previous year's supply chain attack. |
| July 2021 | SolarWinds separated its managed service provider (MSP) business, creating a new separately-traded public company called N-able. |
| March 1 2021 | SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna blamed a company intern for using an insecure password on their update server, though security experts discount this as the primary cause of the breach. |
| February 2021 | Microsoft President Brad Smith declares the SolarWinds cyber attack as 'the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen'. |
| January 2021 | Usenet daily posting volume significantly increased to 100.71 TiB with 171.86 million daily posts. |
| January 2021 | A class action lawsuit was filed against SolarWinds regarding security failures and subsequent stock price decline. |
| January 14 2021 | CRN.com reported that the cyber attack could cost insurance firms at least $90 million. |
| January 8 2021 | SolarWinds hired former CISA director Chris Krebs to help the company address the recent cyber attack. |
| January 4 2021 | Sudhakar Ramakrishna, formerly CEO of Pulse Secure, became the new CEO of SolarWinds. |
| 2020 | SolarWinds experienced a significant supply chain attack by the advanced persistent threat actor Nobelium (also known as APT29 or Cozy Bear), which compromised multiple organizations through their software supply chain. |
| December 21 2020 | Attorney General William Barr stated that he believed the SolarWinds hack was perpetrated by Russia. |
| December 19 2020 | Microsoft announced the discovery of a second supply chain attack on SolarWinds, dubbed SUPERNOVA, which involved a stealthy malware implementation with a web shell acting as a remote access tool. |
| December 17 2020 | SolarWinds announced they would revoke the compromised digital certificates by December 21, 2020. |
| December 16 2020 | German IT news portal Heise.de reported that SolarWinds had been encouraging customers to disable anti-malware tools before installing their products. |
| December 15 2020 | SolarWinds officially reported the security breach to the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
| December 14 2020 | FireEye, a cybersecurity firm, publicly announces that it was breached and that the attack was part of a larger campaign targeting SolarWinds' software supply chain. |
| December 13 2020 | The Washington Post reported that multiple government agencies were breached through SolarWinds's Orion software. |
| December 13 2020 | The SolarWinds cyber attack is first publicly disclosed, revealing a massive supply chain attack where hackers compromised SolarWinds' software update system to distribute malware to thousands of organizations worldwide. |
| December 7 2020 | CEO Kevin Thompson announced his retirement. |
| August 2020 |
Network File System
NFS version 4.1 was revised, further enhancing its capabilities and performance.
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| June 2020 | Final hotfix version in the compromised release series was distributed, containing malicious code. |
| March 2020 | SolarWinds began releasing hotfix versions 2019.4 through 2020.2.1, which were later discovered to contain malicious code distributed to customers. |
| January 2020 | Usenet daily posting volume grew to 62.40 TiB with 107.49 million daily posts. |
| 2019 | Ipswitch was acquired by Progress Software, becoming a part of their corporate portfolio. |
| November 2019 | A security researcher notified SolarWinds about weak credentials on a third-party FTP server with the password 'solarwinds123', warning that hackers could potentially upload malicious code. |
| November 25 2019 | RIPE NCC announced it had fully exhausted its IPv4 addresses and called for increased adoption of IPv6. |
| September 2019 | SolarWinds Orion software platform becomes the target of a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign, where malicious actors begin inserting a backdoor into its software update mechanism. |
| January 2019 | Usenet daily posting volume increased to 60.38 TiB with 104.04 million daily posts. |
| 2018 | Only 25.3% of approximately 54,000 autonomous systems advertised both IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes in the global Border Gateway Protocol routing database. |
| October 19 2018 | SolarWinds completed their public offering. |
| September 2018 | SolarWinds filed for a public offering after three years of being owned by private equity firms. |
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