but that’s wrong on two accounts. It wasn’t a cyberattack in international relations terms, it was espionage. And the victim wasn’t just the US, it was the entire world. But it was massive, and it is dangerous.
Biden took amore realistic tonelast week when he spoke of the need to improve US defenses. The initial focus will likely be on how to clean the hackers out of our networks, why the National Security Agency and US Cyber Commandfailed to detectthis intrusion and whether the 2-year-old Cyber...
which also was determined to have been involved in the hacking of theDemocratic National Committeesix years ago. On Thursday, the White House issuedlong-expected sanctionsagainst Russia in response to the SolarWinds attack and other malicious cyber activity, leveling...
“Early warning” sensors placed by Cyber Command and the National Security Agency deep inside foreign networks to detect brewing attacks clearly failed. There is also no indication yet that any human intelligence alerted the United States to the hacking. The government’s emphasis on election defens...