back to article Judge mostly drags SEC's lawsuit against SolarWinds into the recycling bin

A judge has mostly thrown out a lawsuit brought by America's financial watchdog that accused SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer of misleading investors about its computer security practices and the backdooring of its Orion product. In a Thursday ruling [PDF], US federal district Judge Paul Engelmayer dismissed all of the …

  1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
    FAIL

    "present our own evidence"

    Your honor, I submit this piece of evidence to the Court : Solarwinds1234.

    It's all well and nice to declare the SEC incompetent for cybersecurity, but you need to demonstrate competence for that argument to be valid.

    1. Michael Wojcik Silver badge

      Re: "present our own evidence"

      To be fair, that's part of the pre-SUNBURST complaint: it's a flaw in the product which SolarWinds "knew or should have known" (to use the legal term) existed. So it's not something the judge threw out in this case.

      However, I'm disappointed in this ruling. Letting SolarWinds off the hook for what was a blatant attempt to sweep a huge problem under the rug is the wrong decision. It encourages similar misbehavior in the future. Armchair judging and all that, but I'm not at all persuaded by Engelmeyer's reasoning (as reported here). I think SW execs most certainly could reasonably have seen right from the initial revelations just how damaging this was going to be.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    It's just murkins continued rape and pillage of the rest of the world, they only care if the get catched and MUST AVOID ANY RESPONSIBILITY at any cost

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