Why Do Our Adversaries Prey on Years-Old Vulnerabilities? Because You Let Them

The cybersecurity threats that marked the end of 2020 only seem to be escalating as we move into 2021. Since the SolarStorm crisis that bled over into the beginning of this year, we have seen not one, but two sets of Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities and, most recently, a list of five CVEs that the U.S. Government assessed to be used by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).

This final item is unique: while SolarStorm was a novel supply chain attack and the Microsoft Exchan...