Expert warned 'solarwinds123' password could expose firm: Report
Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images A security researcher told Reuters he warned the IT firm SolarWinds in 2019 that its "solarwinds123" password for its update server could be accessed by anyone. "This could have been done by any attacker, easily," Vinoth Kumar told the outlet, which reported that experts are now working to identify weak security points in the company's system that could have led to the attack. SolarWinds suffered a massive hack when attackers plugged malicious code into the company's software, which was then distributed to 18,000 of its...