Well, Trump should have, at a minimum, checked every single line of code of the Orion update before he installed it on all of the government computers. Furthermore, everyone knows all you have to do is go on TV tell hackers to stop it and the hackers instantaneously stop hacking.
The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of an extensive espionage operation that has affected at least half a dozen federal agencies, officials directly familiar with the matter said. On Thursday, DOE and NNSA officials began coordinating notifications about the breach to their congressional oversight bodies after being briefed by Rocky Campione, the chief information officer at DOE. They found suspicious activity in networks belonging to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories in New Mexico and Washington, the Office of Secure Transportation at NNSA, and the Richland Field Office of the DOE. The hackers have been able to do more damage at FERC than the other agencies, and officials there have evidence of highly malicious activity, the officials said, but did not elaborate. The officials said that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which has been helping to manage the federal response to the broad hacking campaign, indicated to FERC this week that CISA was overwhelmed and might not be able to allocate the necessary resources to respond. DOE will therefore be allocating extra resources to FERC to help investigate the hack, even though FERC is a semi-autonomous agency, the officials said. Several top officials from CISA, including its former director Christopher Krebs, have either been pushed out by the Trump administration or resigned in recent weeks. Federal investigators have been combing through networks in recent days to determine what hackers had been able to access and/or steal, and officials at DOE still don’t know whether the attackers were able to access anything, the people said, noting that the investigation is ongoing and they may not know the full extent of the damage “for weeks.” Shaylyn Hynes, a DOE spokesperson, said that an ongoing investigation into the hack has found that the perpetrators did not get into critical defense systems. "At this point, the investigation has found that the malware has been isolated to business networks only, and has not impacted the mission essential national security functions of the department, including the National Nuclear Security Administration," Hynes said in a statement. "When DOE identified vulnerable software, immediate action was taken to mitigate the risk, and all software identified as being vulnerable to this attack was disconnected from the DOE network.” The attack on DOE is the clearest sign yet that the hackers were able to access the networks belonging to a core part of the U.S. national security enterprise. The hackers are believed to have gained access to the federal agencies’ networks by compromising the software company SolarWinds, which sells IT management products to hundreds of government and private-sector clients. DOE officials were planning on Thursday to notify the House and Senate Energy committees, House and Senate Energy and Water Development subcommittees, House and Senate Armed Services committees, and the New Mexico and Washington State delegations of the breach, the officials said. CISA, the FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence acknowledged the “ongoing” cybersecurity campaign in a joint statement released on Wednesday, saying that they had only become aware of the incident in recent days. “This is a developing situation, and while we continue to work to understand the full extent of this campaign, we know this compromise has affected networks within the federal government,” the statement read. The U.S. government has not blamed any particular actor for the hacks yet, but cybersecurity experts have said the activity bears the hallmarks of Russia’s intelligence services. NNSA is responsible for managing the nation's nuclear weapons, and while it gets the least attention, it takes up the vast majority of DOE's budget. Similarly, the Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs conduct atomic research related to both civil nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The Office of Secure Transportation is tasked with moving enriched uranium and other materials critical for maintaining the nuclear stockpile. Hackers may have been casting too wide a net when they targeted DOE's Richland Field Office, whose primary responsibility is overseeing the cleanup of the Hanford nuclear waste site in Washington state. During World War II and the Cold War, the U.S. produced two- thirds of its plutonium there, but the site hasn't been active since 1971. The attack on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission may have been an effort to disrupt the nation's bulk electric grid. FERC doesn't directly manage any power flows, but it does store sensitive data on the grid that could be used to identify the most disruptive locations for future attacks.
Is there a better way to burn down the house before Trump leaves office on January 20th 2021 ??? Let the Russians in through the back door after firing the CyberSecurity guy. Biden / Harris administration is going to have one hell of a mess to try to clean up. In my opinion, they should arrest the entire Trump administration...put them on a Boeing 737 Max with their golf bags and then send them to Russia...maybe the plane will make it there. wrbtrader
When the theft of technology and military secrets have been going on in the US for decades, extreme liberal ET troll idiots love to lecture us when they have been complicit in the traitorous acts of our RINO and Democrat extreme liberals including, their no good appointees in the intelligence services. Now, you only have to look at the advanced fighter jets that China has which are clones of US fighter jets that we have. President Donald Trump was not even the US President then. Blame your globalist idols, Bill Clinton, GW Bush and Barack Obama. Even now, Chinese spies are being caught in acts of espionage and one extreme liberal judge excused a Chinese spy for time served? In all this time since, extreme liberal Democrats launched two bogus impeachment attempts crying, Russia, Russia when Chinese hackers have been at it for decades? So, precious time wasted, US tax dollars needlessly, wasted on a wild goose chase to promote the Russia narrative to remove a duly elected President Donald Trump? You ET troll idiots just exposed your utter stupidity and nothing else! Go F yourselves!
‘He works for them’: Trump provokes disgust by defending Russia for apparently hacking US government https://www.rawstory.com/trump-putin/