SolarWinds Hack Followed Years of Warnings of Weak Cybersecurity Congress and agencies shelved security recommendations that were considered high priority while investing in programs that have fallen short.
Bloomberg | Jan 15, 2021
Alyza Sebenius (Bloomberg) Congress and federal agencies have been slow or unwilling to address warnings about cybersecurity, shelving recommendations that are considered high priority while investing in programs that have fallen short.
The massive cyber-attack by suspected Russian hackers, disclosed in December, came after years of warnings from a watchdog group and cybersecurity experts. For instance, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, which was created by Congress to come up with strategies to thwart sizable cyber-attacks, presented a set of recommendations to Congress in March that included additional safeguards to ensure more trusted supply chains.
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The claim: Joe Biden was involved in corrupt behavior in Ukraine that is related to the November election
Since near the start of his campaign for the presidency, President-elect Joe Biden has been dogged by accusations of corruption relating to his involvement in the ouster of a top corruption prosecutor in Ukraine.
The conspiracy theories about Biden and his family crested in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election, when major conservative political figures repeated claims of varying truthfulness about Biden and his son Hunter.
One recent Facebook post by Omar Faruque repeats several of these claims, alleging that Biden was involved in corruption and that members of the Obama administration and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., covered up his criminality. It also begins with the claim that Biden never won the election.
How two traditionally disparate security disciplines can be united.
One of the harrowing images to come out of Wednesday s attack on the US Capitol was a photo posted by a rioter of an open laptop on a desk in US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi s office. The screen was visible and apparently unlocked, with a warning in a black box that read, Capitol: Internet Security Threat: Police Activity.
While it remains unclear whether the laptop allegedly stolen from Pelosi s office during the attack on the Capitol is the same one that was photographed in an unlocked state, it underscores how physical security and IT security can go hand in hand.
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