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In his first remarks about the massive hacking operation that leveraged a tainted SolarWinds Orion software update, President Donald Trump on Saturday downplayed the seriousness of the incident and contradicted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who pointed a finger at Russia in a Friday radio interview.
In a pair of tweets on Saturday, Trump appeared to question whether Russia was involved in the hacking operation and opened up the possibility that China may have played a role. The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality, Trump tweeted 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!).
The US Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the country’s nuclear stockpile, said that the malware was isolated to business networks and didn’t affect national security functions.
Nonetheless, the effect of Thursday’s revelations was confirmation that no single person or agency including the highest reaches of the US government is certain of exactly what the hackers had infiltrated, let alone the full extent of what was taken. A Kremlin official has denied the allegations.
President-elect Joe Biden took time out of his day to issue a statement: “I want to be clear: my administration will make cybersecurity a top priority at every level of government – and we will make dealing with this breach a top priority from the moment we take office.”
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America’s people are again experiencing a sustained bombardment of scary stories to create fear, or even mass panic. Only obedience to our elites and massive funding to the Military-Industrial Complex (aka the Deep State) can save us. A stream of ominous press releases and speeches describe our peril.
“Over the course of the past several days, the FBI, CISA, and ODNI have become aware of a significant and ongoing cybersecurity campaign. Pursuant to Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 41, the FBI, CISA, and ODNI have formed a Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG) to coordinate a whole-of-government response to this significant cyber incident.”
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One of the biggest cyberattacks to have targeted US government agencies and private companies, the SolarWinds hack is being seen as a likely global effort. How was it carried out, and what kind of data has been compromised? Why have US government officials and politicians named Russia? Updated: December 29, 2020 9:16:06 am
The target of the cyberattack was Orion, a software supplied by the company SolarWinds. (Reuters Photo)
The ‘SolarWinds hack’, a cyberattack recently discovered in the United States, has emerged as one of
the biggest ever targeted against the US government, its agencies and several other private companies. In fact, it is likely a global cyberattack.
‘It’s going to take a lot of digging’: The Pentagon’s long search to see if anyone’s hiding in its networks December 17, 2020 The Pentagon s investigation of whether hackers infiltrated its networks in the SolarWinds breach will be difficult. (JuSun/Getty Images) WASHINGTON – The military and intelligence community is scrambling to conduct a daunting hunt across disconnected networks to assess potential damage from an extensive federal cybersecurity breach by suspected Russian hackers. As it searches for lurkers, one complicating factor is that the cybersecurity arm of the Department of Homeland Security warned Thursday that hackers used other means to access government and business networks beyond a software platform from contractor SolarWinds, used by the Pentagon, the military and intelligence offices. That network management platform was “not the only initial infection vector,” the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency alert said.