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In a wide-spread cyber-attack on US federal agencies and enterprises, hackers also broke into the networks of NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), The Washington Post has reported, saying the Biden administration is reportedly preparing sanctions against Russia as the cybercriminals are "likely Russian in origin". Nine federal agencies and about 100 private sector companies were compromised as a result of the SolarWinds hack, the White House said last week. NASA and the FAA wer...

ADVERTISEMENT Warner is among the many bipartisan members of Congress focused on creating meaningful change in the wake of the breach, planning to discuss with witnesses topics including whether norms in cyberspace needed to be established and potential mandatory reporting with some liability protections for companies that get hacked. The Senate Intelligence Committee will kick off the week of hearings on the breach on Tuesday afternoon, when SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna will testify alo...

Read more about US authorities still unravelling sophisticated hack of nine govt agencies on Business Standard. A task force is investigating the extent of the damage from the breach, assessing potential responses and trying to confirm the identity of whoever was behind it

The SolarWinds Hack Was All But Inevitable -- this post authored by Terry Thompson, · · Many U.S. companies outsource software development because of a talent shortage, and some of that outsourcing goes to companies in Eastern Europe that are vulnerable to Russian operatives. · U.S. national cyber defense is split between the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, which leaves gaps in authority. The SolarWinds hack was more than just one of the most devastating cy...

Fragmented authority for national cyber defense and global supply chains for building software stack the deck against US cybersecurity.

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‘Russian link to hacking in United States’ Updated: Updated: Moscow has repeatedly denied the allegations Share Article Moscow has repeatedly denied the allegations The group behind a globalcyber-espionage campaign discovered last month deployed malicious computer code with links to spying tools previously used by suspected Russian hackers, researchers said on Monday. Investigators at Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said the “backdoor” used to compromise up to 18,000 customers...

CYBERSECURITY - Further Fall-Out from Russian Hacking of SolarWinds - U.S. intelligence agencies, including the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Security Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, have confirmed that Russia was behind the SolarWinds hack. It is reported that the FBI is investigating whether Russia hacked into project management software JetBrains’ TeamCity DevOps tool to originally plant its malware in SolarWinds Ori...

SUBJECT: Attempts to Sucker You Into Russia-Bashing Dear President-elect Biden, “ Fool Me Once …” You may recall that President George W. Bush could not remember the last part of that aphorism. No matter. It turned out that — on Iraq — Bush was not fooled by bad intelligence. Rather, he and Vice President Dick Cheney were determined to attack Iraq and asked malleable former colleagues of o...

Antiwar.com Blog Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Posted on SUBJECT: Attempts to Sucker You Into Russia-Bashing Dear President-elect Biden, “ Fool Me Once …” You may recall that President George W. Bush could not remember the last part of that aphorism. No matter. It turned out that – on Iraq – Bush was not fooled by bad intelligence. Rather, he and Vice President Dick Cheney were determined to attack Iraq and asked malleable former colleagues of ours to manufacture inte...