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Security has been a concern, and add to that the abbey gate, and it is well known to the viewers at this point. that is the gate we saw that a baby was lifted over a u.s. marine grabbing the baby up and took him in for medical treatment. it is also the gate that is the site of large crowds where people are desperately trying to get through the gate and on to the evacuation flights. because of the large crowds, the u.s. is worried about the security there and not among the evacuees, but the possibility of some nefarious element such as isis-k could infiltrate the crowds and carry out an attack. as you mentioned, it is unlikely that isis-k was behind the attacks. there is no firm attribution, but the threats that the u.s. was tracking were exactly what we saw carry out today. ....
This effort includes looking at how to stop these attacks and what authorities the government can leverage, and also the ways they can help these private companies harden their defenses. we do know that president biden is meeting today as we speak with key leaders from across the government including from the state department, the department of justice, the department of homeland security as well as the intelligence community, and that really does speak to the extent to which this ransomware effort really does hit all different parts of government and the need for an across-the-government kind of response to this. we do know that president biden raised this issue of ransomware this his meeting with russian president vladimir putin which happened three weeks ago today, and we know that this latest attack on this company kaseya appears to have been carried out by this russian-based group r evil, and the white house has not yet made a firm attribution here. but the white house press ....