Former US cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs says officials are still tracking scope of the SolarWinds hack Inyoung Choi Christopher C. Krebs, former director of the Homeland Security Department s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency speaks before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 14, 2019 in Washington, DC. Chris Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said on Sunday the massive SolarWinds cybersecurity attack appears to be linked to Russia. Everything I ve heard, whether it s from private sector cybersecurity threat and intelligence experts, things I have heard out of Congress - it s Russia, Krebs said on CNN s State of The Union Sunday.
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Chris Krebs, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said on Sunday the massive SolarWinds cybersecurity attack appears to be linked to Russia. Everything I ve heard, whether it s from private sector cybersecurity threat and intelligence experts, things I have heard out of Congress – it s Russia, Krebs said on CNN s State of The Union Sunday.
Krebs warned that the scale of the cybersecurity breach was probably more broad than the hacking of SolarWinds, but said he would be very careful about escalating when asked if the US should retaliate.
Chris Krebs, former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said the massive SolarWinds cybersecurity attack appears to be linked to Russia, but the US should be cautious in its response.
Dec 10, 2020
Unite Stillwater organizers Marc Trotter (left) and Riley Flack celebrated outside the Stillwater Municipal Building on Nov. 9 as they prepared to submit recall petitions for the Stillwater city council, based on what they say are violations of individual liberties during response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The men filed suit against the City of Stillwater Thursday after additional signatures were invalidated. Provided
Riley Flack and Marc Trotter, co-founders of a group seeking to recall the entire Stillwater City Council, are suing the City of Stillwater, City Manager Norman McNickle and City Clerk Teresa Kadavy.
Their suit was filed the day after city officials announced recall petitions circulated by Flack and Trotterâs organization Unite Stillwater â that were originally certified with enough valid signatures to trigger a recall election for most of Stillwaterâs city councilors â had actually fallen short.
Dec 9, 2020
City of Stillwater staff members Melody Herndon (left) and Patti Osmus checked in petitions filed in an attempt to recall Stillwater s mayor and the other members of the city council. Michelle Charles/Stillwater News Press
Petitions to recall members of the Stillwater City Council that earlier in the week had been certified with enough signatures to trigger an election, actually did not have enough valid signatures, the City of Stillwater announced Wednesday.
City Manager Norman McNickle told the News Press the Payne County Election Board was given incorrect instructions about which signatures should be considered valid. According to the city charter, only people who were registered voters and eligible to vote in city elections at the time they signed the petition should have been counted, he said.