Security News This Week: Hackers Broke Into the SEC... A Year Ago

Published: Sept. 26, 2017, 8:59 a.m.

The week kicked off with news that CCleaner, a popular security software tool, had itself been compromised, distributing a backdoor to hundreds of thousands of users and highlighting software's serious supply-chain security issue. Just a few days later, it turned out that the CCleaner was designed instead to target nearly two dozen specific tech firms. That's... not good.