2 March 2021, 3:26 am EST By
SolarWinds was previously hacked by Russian hackers, which made huge headlines across the globe. Right now, the Texas-based software provider is facing an SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) investigation after the security agency discovered that some of its largest investors sold their shares, which cost around $315 million in total, a few days before the massive online attack.
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Lt. Mike Baute from Florida s Child Predator CyberCrime Unit talks with a man on instant messenger during the unveiling of a new CyberCrimes office March 7, 2008 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The person on the other side of the chat told Lt. Baute, who is saying he is a 14-year-old girl, that he is a 31-year-old male and sent him a photograph of himself. According to current statistics, more than 77 million children regularly use the Internet.
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A U.S. Air Force U-2 spy plane flies in this undated file photo. Iraq s U.N. ambassador, Mohamed Aldouri, has said that Iraq will unconditionally accept a UN request to allow the U.S. to fly U-2 spy planes in Iraqi airspace. Iraq had refused the flights before saying it couldn t guarantee the safety of the planes and worried that the U.S. would down the plane as a pretext to war.
According to Popular Mechanics latest report, the affected plane is specifically the Globaleye, which is an aircraft that combines the Bombadier 6000 long-range global business jet with Saab s Erieye airborne radar sensor.