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Five Russian hacks that transformed US cyber-security
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image captionSince the days of the Soviet Union, cyber-espionage has been a key concern of US officials
, is a reminder that Moscow is America s oldest adversary in cyber-space.
For more than three decades, hackers linked to Moscow are believed to have tried to steal US secrets online.
Those breaches of US systems have done much to define how America sees cyber-space, and how it defends itself.
And they have learnt it is not always possible to predict, or stop, Moscow s efforts.
1) Cuckoo s Egg
The first person to trail foreign hackers taking sensitive US data was not a spy, but an astronomer who was worried about an unpaid $0.75.
Sen. King speaks at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. (U.S. Navy photo)
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), one of the chairs of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, told reporters on Wednesday he and other lawmakers are drafting legislation that would mandate private sector companies supporting critical infrastructure to notify the government if their network is breached. The commission will be recommending a breach notification law applying to critical infrastructure shortly, probably within the month, he said. There are some tricky issues that have to be worked out, proprietary details, confidentiality, liability issues…We re pretty close. We have legislation drafted and we re continuing to refine it.
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Following the recent SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange hacks that rocked the IT world, Dell Technologies founder and CEO Michael Dell says the public cloud is no more or less secure than on-premise solutions.
“Public cloud is no more or less secured than on-premise,” said Dell, who runs the world’s largest IT infrastructure company which just recorded a record high of $94.2 billion in revenues for fiscal year 2021. “The reason is that security is about people, and people on both sides can make mistakes and compromise security.”
Dell told CRN US that an organisation can implement the best cybersecurity practices to create a highly secure network. “But, the things that led to a lot of these attacks are human-induced that can occur in a public cloud, can occur in a private cloud – it can occur anywhere,” he said.