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Trump Gets Echo of Obama’s Russia Crisis With Lame-Duck Hack Bloomberg 12/19/2020 Nick Wadhams © Bloomberg The Kremlin, viewed from the O2 Lounge restaurant, on the roof of the Ritz-Carlton hotel, in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. Russias household consumption is rebounding from a steep plunge in the second quarter, but the gains reflect pent-up demand and only a partial return to normalcy. (Bloomberg) -- A massive hack on the federal government presents Presid...

Russian President Vladimir Putin with U.S. President Barack Obama during a UN conference on climate change, November 30, 2015. About two weeks later, Obama said the U.S. would retaliate after the White House accused Putin of direct involvement in cyberattacks designed to influence the U.S. election. Photo by MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP via Getty Images Article content A massive hack on the federal government presents President Donald Trump with the same choice Barack Obama faced in the waning days...

Trump gets echo of Obama’s Russia crisis with lame-duck hacking Nick Wadhams A massive hack on the federal government presents President Donald Trump with the same choice Barack Obama faced in the waning days of his tenure: whether to impose sanctions on Russia, and how severe to make them. So far, Trump has shown little willingness to impose costs. Confronted with evidence that Vladimir Putin’s government orchestrated cyberattacks aimed at interfering with the 2016 election, Obama levied s...

224 BRIDGETOWN — China appears to have used mobile phone networks in the Caribbean to surveil United States mobile phone subscribers as part of its espionage campaign against Americans, according to a mobile network security expert who has analyzed sensitive signals data. The findings paint an alarming picture of how China has allegedly exploited decades-old vulnerabilities in the global telecommunications network to route “active” surveillance attacks through telecommunications oper...