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U.S. cyber agency says SolarWinds hackers are 'impacting' state, local governments

And... the market rewards them

'What's the alternative?' SolarWinds boosts security firms' bottom lines

Cybersecurity providers including FireEye Inc and Microsoft Corp could not prevent a huge network breach disclosed this month by numerous U.S. agencies and companies, yet their shares are soaring for a second straight week.
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Wall Street is betting that governments and businesses - having invested years in moving to digital infrastructure - will only accelerate purchases of the latest IT tools.

“What’s the alternative?” said Venkatesh Shankar, marketing professor at Texas A&M University.

Airbag recalls or Listeria outbreaks tend to affect shares within a narrow supply chain, from restaurants and auto dealers down to parts and ingredients suppliers, he said.

At the time of writing, the SolarWind stock price dropped on YtY from $18.55 a year ago, to $15.75 now. Crazy as it may sound after being hacked, the recommendation is "Buy", because "What's the alternative?"

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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday December 31 2020, @04:17AM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Thursday December 31 2020, @04:17AM (#1093110) Journal
    All the companies died rapidly. Just because the legal proceedings took forever to dispose of the carcass doesn't mean they're going alive. Corel is a weird case, now owned by vulture capital company KKR. Before that they delisted their stock, amid lawsuits, that followed the lawsuits over illegal accounting practices related to counting channel packing - shipping stock to distributors way over what the distributors asked for, counting that as sales, then reversing it after the reporting period.

    They've outsourced most of their development, so it's basically a shell. A zombie. The undead. But KKR likes the undead.

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