Posted: Dec 24, 2020 5:05 PM ET | Last Updated: December 25, 2020
The SolarWinds logo is seen outside its headquarters in Austin, Texas on Dec. 18, 2020. (Sergio Flores/Reuters)
Canada s cybersecurity unit is urging Canadian users of SolarWinds Orion software to investigate whether their systems have been compromised in a far reaching hack revealed earlier this month.
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security said in an alert released Thursday It is believed that government agencies and a variety of organizations in Canada and abroad may be affected by the hack, which was carried out by a highly sophisticated threat actor.
The centre, which is a unit of the Communications Security Establishment, one of Canada s key security and intelligence organizations, did not specify which organizations or government entities may have been affected by the hack.
Susan Walsh / AP
Originally published on December 22, 2020 1:47 pm
One of the top federal officials responsible for securing the nation s elections is speaking out days after leaving his job with the Department of Homeland Security s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Matthew Masterson was a senior cybersecurity adviser at CISA, primarily responsible for elections, and his departure comes amid persistent, but baseless, claims that the 2020 elections were riddled with fraud. Many of those have come from President Trump, who last month fired Masterson s former boss, Christopher Krebs, after Krebs joined others in calling the 2020 election the most secure in American history. Trump s allegations have been widely disputed by election experts and numerous courts, where his campaign has tried unsuccessfully to overturn the election results.
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Matthew Masterson, then a senior cybersecurity adviser at the Department of Homeland Security, testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing in 2019. He left his post on Friday. Susan Walsh/AP
One of the top federal officials responsible for securing the nation s elections is speaking out days after leaving his job with the Department of Homeland Security s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Matthew Masterson was a senior cybersecurity adviser at CISA, primarily responsible for elections, and his departure comes amid persistent, but baseless, claims that the 2020 elections were riddled with fraud. Many of those have come from President Trump, who last month fired Masterson s former boss, Christopher Krebs, after Krebs joined others in calling the 2020 election the most secure in American history. Trump s allegations have been widely disputed by election experts and numer
On this week’s Political Gabfest, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson talked with Alex Stamos, director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, who previously served as chief security officer at Facebook, about the SolarWinds cyberespionage attack. Their conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
David Plotz: Alex, there are reports this that some clever and highly resourced people have broken into some of the most secure aspects of the American government and corporations. We are only beginning to understand what was compromised and what may have been taken. What has happened?
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Alex Stamos: To understand this story, we’ve got to think about the different groups in Russia. There are three main intelligence agencies there. The GRU is one we’ve often talked about because they were behind the DNC hack and a lot of election issues. They’re the military intelligence folks, they’re like a sledgehammer. They will hit you in the face very hard, an
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