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× Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Karen TownsendPosted at 8:01 pm on December 18, 2020 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Several days ago the top government officials who will be at the front of the line to be vaccinated were announced. The White House, leaders on Capitol Hill, and in the judiciary will receive priority appointments for the vaccination against COVID-19. It is part of continuity-of-government planning. This morning Vice-President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence, and the Surgeon General made a joint appearance to receive their vaccinations on camera. Besides the contin...

Frank Bajak FILE - The U.S. Treasury Department building viewed from the Washington Monument, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Washington. Hackers got into computers at the U.S. Treasury Department and possibly other federal agencies, touching off a government response involving the National Security Council. Security Council spokesperson John Ullyot said Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020 that the government is aware of reports about the hacks. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file) December 18, 2020 - 3:16 PM BOSTON - It’s going to take months to kick elite hackers widely believ...

By Christopher Bing and Jonathan Landay Dec 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump, in his first comments about a widespread data breach across the U.S. government, on Saturday downplayed the cyber espionage campaign and questioned whether Russia was to blame as alleged by his own top diplomat. "The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality," Trump said on Twitter on Saturday. "Russia, Russia, Russia is the priority chant when anything happens because Lamestream is, for mostly financial reasons, petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!...

Invalid Date, RUSSIAN spies reportedly hacked Microsoft and infiltrated a US nuclear weapons stockpile as part of a nine-month "virtual invasion" by Moscow. The malware used in the breach - which poses a "grave threat" to America - was "isolated to business networks only” and has not affected US national security, an Energy Department spokeswoman said on Friday. 19 19 Hackers used various techniques, including the corruption of updates from network management app SolarWinds. The SolarWinds hack may have impacted thousands of companies and government agencies, the DHS revealed. According to...

By Justin Katz Dec 16, 2020 The National Security Council today announced it invoked an Obama-era presidential directive to create a special group responsible for managing the federal government's response to a breach in the networks of multiple agencies. "A Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG) has been established to ensure continued unity of effort across the United States Government in response to a significant cyber incident," John Ullyot, an NSC spokesman, said via Twitter. "The UCG process facilitates continuous and comprehensive coordination for whole-of-government efforts to ident...