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By Justin Katz   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 identify, mitig...

REUTERS BOSTON/WASHINGTON/SINGAPORE — MSCI, Inc will cut seven Chinese firms from some of its global indexes, it said on Tuesday, the third major index publisher to do so following US restrictions on owning the companies. As with similar steps by S&P, Dow Jones Indices and FTSE Russell the move means index-tracking funds will need to divest, the latest disruption to markets from an increasingly tough approach to China by the outgoing Trump administration. Companies to be deleted include SMIC, China Communications Construction Co. and Hangzhou Hikvision, though MSCI said it will launch new ...

Most companies don’t mind being in the spotlight, but Texas-based software company, SolarWinds is not enjoying its first time in the bright spotlight. This spotlight has cost the company plenty after a nearly 17 percent stock market dive. That’s because the company providing vital computer network monitoring services to corporations and government agencies around the world got exploited by Russian hackers. Funny enough, while Donald Trump claimed he would be cracking down on hackers in 2017, he his administration hasn’t said a word about Russia’s biggest cyber attack in United States ...

US Security Adviser cuts trip short to address hacking incident — spokesperson 16 Dec 2020 / 15:06 H. U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien looks on during a statement to the media at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, October 20, 2020. — Reuters WASHINGTON: White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien has cut his diplomatic trip in Europe short to return to the United States to address the recent hacking incident that targeted multiple federal agencies, reported Sputnik news agency. “Ambassador O’Brien is returning to address the hacking incident,“ s...

Updated Dec. 15, 2020 9:22 pm ET WASHINGTON—White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien has cut short a multicountry trip to Europe to return to the U.S. to address the suspected Russian hack of government agencies, signaling growing alarm within the Trump administration about a cyber espionage campaign considered potentially one of the most damaging in years. The change of plans for Mr. O’Brien comes two days after it was disclosed that multiple federal agencies had been hacked as part of a global hacking campaign that is believed to have also ensnared private...