Corruption, Crime and Compliance: SEC Suffers Dismissal of Claims in Solarwinds Securities Fraud Case
Episode 334 -- District Court Dismisses Bulk of SEC Claims Against Solarwinds
The Woody Report: The Solar Winds Dismissal
Four Companies Settle SEC Allegations for “Misleading Cyber Disclosures” Regarding SolarWinds - On October 22, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced settlements with four companies for alleged...more
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the majority of claims that the Security and Exchange Commission ("SEC") asserted against SolarWinds, including claims that the company's alleged...more
The SEC has been aggressively pursuing cybersecurity investigations and enforcement actions against public companies and foreign private issuers. In these actions, the SEC often alleges one of two theories: 1) that the...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") has charged SolarWinds Corp. (SolarWinds) and the company's chief information security officer ("CISO") with securities fraud and violations of internal controls...more
On October 30, 2023, the SEC filed a litigated complaint against SolarWinds, a software development company, and Timothy Brown, its chief information security officer (CISO). The SEC alleges that from October 2018, when...more
Earlier this week, the SEC accused SolarWinds Corporation (“SolarWinds” or the “Company”) and its Chief Information Security Officer (“CISO”) of committing scienter-based securities fraud, among other violations, for...more
The Delaware Chancery Court’s recent opinion in Construction Industry Laborers Pension Fund et al. v. Bingle et al., C.A. No. 2021-0494-SG (Del. Ch.) dismissing claims asserted against members of SolarWinds Corporation’s...more
While cybersecurity professionals are generally nice people, and I have nothing against them, they have trust issues. Their spouse, friends, and family may not appreciate the lack of trust, but it goes a long way towards...more
In a blog post entitled “New activity from Russian actor Nobelium,” Microsoft’s V.P. of Customer Security & Trust Tom Burt discussed a recent alert issued by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) regarding the...more
The SolarWinds hack highlights the critical need for organizations of all sizes to include cyber supply chain risk management as part of their information security program. It is also a reminder that privacy and security...more
Following the SolarWinds cyber espionage attack (the “Attack”) and the resulting focus on supply chain risk, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has issued a report detailing the impact on and responses by...more
Friday afternoon, reports surfaced that a foreign nation had compromised newly-discovered flaws in the Microsoft Exchange Server email software and breached the cybersecurity efforts of more than 60,000 known victims. ...more
Last month there was a cyber-attack suspected to have been perpetrated by Russian hackers. The attack was traced back to third party – a network management software vendor, SolarWinds. Among its 300,000 customers, SolarWinds...more
ICYMI, on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) issued an update about what it termed “a major incident under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act”: the global SolarWinds...more
The impacts and implications of the recent SolarWinds breach are widespread and on-going. SolarWinds' network-monitoring and management software was used by customers worldwide—including the U.S. military, Fortune 500...more
Ransomware attacks have increased over the last several months, but the nation state attacks identified over the last several days are causing people to take a harder look at their systems and what they can do to protect...more