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December 23, 2020 8:37 PM ET Font Size: The U.S. government was hit by one of the largest cyberattacks on record after cybersecurity firm FireEye and software company SolarWinds — both of which work with government agencies and major corporations — announced earlier this month their systems had been compromised. Top government officials like Attorney General William Barr and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said earlier this week that the hack was a cyber espionage operation most likely conducted by Russia. But President Donald Trump downplayed the threat assessment and said the media was b...

That's my "light on the Chicken Little, heavy on the realpolitik" hot take on the SolarWinds Orion supply chain attack. "What if CIA and NSA have already been doing to Russia what SVR did to the United States - just without getting caught doing it?  It's important to remember that the apparent focus of the hack of Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds' software development pipeline, which resulted in the company's Orion network monitoring software being backdoored, was espionage. In particular, investigators have suggested that Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service may have been behind the hac...

Originally published on December 21, 2020 12:23 am NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Thomas Rid of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies about Russia's alleged hack on the U.S. government and tech companies. Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Even though you can't exactly see it right this very minute, the United States is under attack. It is a megahack. That's at least how some experts are describing the massive breach of government and business computers revealed this past week. And it is very serious. Joining us no...

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney said that the next cyberattack could do far more damage next time, such as cutting off the country's water and electricity supply. Romney said the massive cyberattack discovered early this week should be met with a fast response without any delay. Federal officials said that this could be the biggest hack on the U.S. government ever, as reported by the New York Daily News. "I don't know if we have the capacity to do that in a way that would be of the same scale or even greater scale than what Russia has applied to us, but this is something we have to address as soo...

Trump contradicts Pompeo in bid to downplay massive hack of U.S. government, Russia's role Ellen Nakashima and Josh Dawsey, The Washington Post Dec. 19, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump addressed the ongoing cyber hacks of the U.S. government for the first time on Saturday, seeking to turn blame away from Moscow in defiance of mounting evidence while downplaying how devastating the intrusions appear to be. In a bizarre outburst on Twitter that Trump's critics condemned for its alarming disconnect from the facts, the president contradicted his top diplomat, Secret...