The SEC drops its 2023 case against SolarWinds and its CISO Tim Brown, which alleged they concealed vulnerabilities ahead of the Russia-linked 2020 cyberattack
Chris Prentice / Reuters :
SolarWinds says it will go private in a $4.4B deal with buyout firm Turn/River Capital; SWI closes up 21.8%
https://www.reuters.com/... https://investors.solarwinds.com/ ...
N-able, which sells software for managed service providers and spun off from SolarWinds in 2021, acquires DC-based cybersecurity company Adlumin in a $266M deal
We've acquired @adlumin! Read more about how we're all in on strengthening security for businesses worldwide: https://www.n-able.com/... [image] @adlumin : Today's a big day at Adlumin—we've been acqu...
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner says China-linked Salt Typhoon group listened to phone calls and read texts by hacking US telecom networks
https://www.nytimes.com/... Bluesky: @anarcish.bsky.social : For the entire history of information technology security experts have warned that once you make a back door to allow the government to leg...
Unisys, Check Point, Avaya, and Mimecast to pay a combined $7M to the SEC, which says they negligently downplayed the impact of the SolarWinds supply chain hack
The companies fined are: Avaya, Check Point, Mimecast, and Unysis. — https://techcrunch.com/... X: Mike Swift / @swiftstories : The @SECGov is starting to hand out some real #cybersecurity fines, ...
An interview with SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown on the 2020 breach, facing SEC charges that were largely dismissed in July 2024, global cyber regulations, and more
SOX for cyber? … Federico Charosky : Yes, we need better cyber laws, but I don't think the lack of them was the fundamental problem behind SolarWinds (or any other high-profile supply chain issue) …
A US judge dismisses most of a SEC lawsuit accusing SolarWinds of misleading investors by failing to disclose cybersecurity failures in its Orion software
Tim Starks / CyberScoop :
Investigation: the US Cyber Safety Review Board didn't investigate, for unclear reasons, the weaknesses in Microsoft tools that the SolarWinds hack exploited
Investigation: the US Cyber Safety Review Board didn't investigate, for unclear reasons, the weaknesses in Microsoft tools that the SolarWinds hack exploited
Zero Trust: Inside Microsoft's Cybersecurity Failures — Investigating how the world's largest software provider handles the security of its own ubiquitous products.
Ex-employee Andrew Harris says Microsoft for years dismissed his warnings of an Active Directory flaw that led to the 2021 SolarWinds hack; Harris left in 2020
Microsoft hired Andrew Harris for his extraordinary skill in keeping hackers out of the nation's most sensitive computer networks.