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By Justin Katz
Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, told a panel of senators on Tuesday that his company estimates the cybersecurity breach of nine federal agencies and 100 private companies likely took at least a thousand skilled and capable people to pull off. At Microsoft as we worked with customers that had been impacted by this, we stepped back and just analyzed all of the engineering steps that we had seen and we asked ourselves how many engineers do we believed had worked on this collective effort and the answer we came to was at least a thousand,” Smith told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. I should say at least a thousand very skilled, capable engineers. So we haven’t seen this kind of sophistication matched with this kind of scale, he added.
Cyber Interference Still a Concern for Israeli Election Officials Uri Cohen
Fake news, foreign threats on the minds of law enforcement ahead of March 23 poll
Israel is less than a month away from its fourth election in two years, with campaigns and rallies picking up steam as candidates head into the final stretch. Yet political parties are not the only ones preparing for Election Day. The country’s election committee and law enforcement agencies also are gearing up for the national poll.
Even though this is Israel’s fourth election cycle since April 2019, security officials are trying not to take anything for granted, as threats of cyberattacks and intervention by hostile elements continue to concern the people in charge of ensuring a safe election.