SolarWinds Was Warned Last Year Its Server Could Be Accessed With Password ‘Solarwinds123’

SolarWinds Was Warned Last Year Its Server Could Be Accessed With Password ‘Solarwinds123’
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A security researcher alerted network software giant SolarWinds last year that its software update server could be accessed using the password: “solarwinds123.”

“This could have been done by any attacker, easily,” Vinoth Kumar, the security researcher, said about discovering the relatively insecure password.

Ivan Pentchoukov
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Ivan is the national editor of The Epoch Times. He has reported for The Epoch Times on a variety of topics since 2011.
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