SEC sues SolarWinds for hiding security weaknesses during massive hack.

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SEC sues SolarWinds for hiding security weaknesses during massive hack.
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“We’re so far from being a security minded company. Every time I hear about our head geeks talking about security I want to throw up,” said one unnamed SolarWind employee to the SEC.

The lawsuit says that Texas-based SolarWinds and its chief information security officer Timothy Brown defrauded investors by knowingly misrepresenting SolarWinds’ cybersecurity weaknesses as Russia-linked hackers.

The lawsuit says that Texas-based SolarWinds and its chief information security officer Timothy Brown defrauded investors by knowingly misrepresenting SolarWinds’ cybersecurity weaknesses as Russia-linked hackers
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