Just hours after the Electoral College elected Joe Biden the next president, formalizing the former Democratic vice president s win in the Nov. 3 election, Russia s leader Vladimir Putin on Tuesday acknowledged Biden s victory, saying he wished the president-elect every success and was ready for interaction and contact.
The Kremlin, which has decried what it has called Biden’s sharp anti-Russian rhetoric but praised the president-elect s comments on arms control, had said it preferred to wait until the election results were official before congratulating a winner.
Putin was one of the last world leaders who had not acknowledged Biden s victory. President Donald Trump is still refusing to concede the election. Many Republican lawmakers have followed Trump s lead and not publicly endorsed Biden s victory.
Just hours after the Electoral College elected Joe Biden the next president, formalizing the former Democratic vice president s win in the Nov. 3 election, Russia s leader Vladimir Putin on Tuesday acknowledged Biden s victory, saying he wished the president-elect every success and was ready for interaction and contact.
The Kremlin, which has decried what it has called Biden’s sharp anti-Russian rhetoric but praised the president-elect s comments on arms control, had said it preferred to wait until the election results were official before congratulating a winner.
Putin was one of the last world leaders who had not acknowledged Biden s victory. President Donald Trump is still refusing to concede the election. Many Republican lawmakers have followed Trump s lead and not publicly endorsed Biden s victory.
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Last night the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a rare Emergency Directive 21-01, in response to a KNOWN COMPROMISE involving SolarWinds Orion products.
This was only the fifth Emergency Directive issued by CISA under the authorities granted by Congress in the Cybersecurity Act of 2015.
CISA reported a breach of the SolarWinds Orion products.
This Emergency Directive called on all federal civilian agencies to review their networks for indicators of compromise and disconnect or power down SolarWinds Orion products immediately.
This has been a record year for cybercrime, thanks to COVID-19, ransomware, and nation-state attacks.
As the world s attention was focused elsewhere, cyber criminals went on a major offensive, keeping enterprise security teams around the world on their toes.
According to a recent McAfee report, cybercrime will cost the global economy more than $1 trillion this year: $945 billion in monetary losses and $145 billion in cybersecurity spending. Insurance giant Allianz estimates that 2020 is on track to hit record highs for the number of cybercrime-related insurance claims.
Cybercrime is now at or near the top of every risk poll conducted: up from 15th place seven years ago.
Four Ways for President Biden to Fix Cyber on January 21
President-elect Biden gives a speech celebrating his victory. (Photo by Adam Schultz / Biden for President)
From a global pandemic that has shown no signs of slowing to regional instability across the world, President-elect Biden will have no shortage of issues to address. Unlike nearly all other challenges, however, Biden and his incoming national security team can make demonstrative progress in cybersecurity within hours of taking office. Too frequently, American policymakers have approached and treated “cyber issues” as a purely technical problem requiring a technical solution. Despite this presumption, many solutions to cyber issues are not technical at all and are solidly grounded in how humans use technology, rather than in the technologies themselves. The measures presented here highlight that tangible results are within reach and that the Biden administration can hit the ground running on day one.