Hackers at centre of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds' dominance against it

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Hackers at centre of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds' dominance against it

Update server could be accessed last year with 'solarwinds123' password.

On an earnings call two months ago, SolarWinds chief executive Kevin Thompson touted how far the company had gone during his 11 years at the helm. There was not a database or an IT deployment model out there to which his company did not provide some level of monitoring or management, he told ...

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