Hackers used SolarWinds' dominance against it in sprawling spy campaign


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020

FILE PHOTO Optical fibre cables are seen in a telephone exchange in Rome Italy December 20 2013. REUTERSAlessandro Bianchi

FILE PHOTO: Optical fibre cables are seen in a telephone exchange in Rome, Italy December 20, 2013. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 Austin, Texas-based company did not provide some level of monitoring or management, he told analysts on the Oct. 27 call.

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