Biden orders federal cyber upgrade after barrage of hacks
The far-reaching directive is an attempt to close longstanding gaps in the government’s ability to block and investigate hacks.
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How U.S. agencies' trust in untested software opened the door to hackers
How U.S. agencies' trust in untested software opened the door to hackers POLITICO 12/19/2020 © Michael Bocchieri/Getty Images Network cables plugged into a server. The massive monthslong hack of agencies across the U.S. government succeeded, in part, because no one was looking in the right place. The federal government conducts only cursory security inspections of the software it buys from private companies for a wide range of activities, from managing databases to operating internal chat applications. That created the blind spot that suspected Russian hackers exploited to breach the Tre...
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