4 ms·
Refresher: SolarWinds is that company that develops IT management software. The hack (suspected to be carried out by the Russians[1]) involving SolarWinds' syst
by schappim 5y ago
Refresher: SolarWinds is that company that develops IT management software. The hack (suspected to be carried out by the Russians[1]) involving SolarWinds' systems and software penetrated thousands of organizations globally including multiple parts of the United States federal government, leading to a series of data breaches.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220101181934/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/us/politics/russia-hack-nsa-homeland-security-pentagon.html https://web.archive.org/web/20220101181934/https://www.nytim...
- landonxjames 5y agoThis is a helpful reminder because upon reading the headline I immediately confused this company with the solar roof company Tesla acquired a few years ago.
- gkoberger 5y agoThat's SolarCity, and Elon Musk was chairman of the company long before Tesla acquired it.
- hammock 5y agoI was thinking of Solyndra, the company whose executives misled federal officials to obtain $535 million in government-backed loans, with the help of former President Barack Obama's White House