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US intelligence agencies attributed a sophisticated malware campaign to Russia in a joint statement Tuesday, several weeks after public reports of the hack that has affected local, state and federal agencies in the US in addition to private companies including Microsoft. The massive breach, which reportedly compromised an email system used by senior leadership at the Treasury Department and systems at several other federal agencies, started in March 2020 when hackers compromised IT management software from SolarWinds.  … [Read more...] about SolarWinds hack officially blamed on Russia: What you need to know

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO : President Joe Biden is hiring a group of national security veterans with deep cyber expertise, drawing praise from former defense officials and investigators as the US government works to recover from one of the biggest hacks of its agencies attributed to Russian spies. "It is great to see the priority that the new administration is giving to cyber," said Suzanne Spaulding, director of the Defending Democratic Institutions project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Cybersecurity was demoted as a policy field under the Trump administration. It discontinued the Cybersecurity Coordinator position at the White House, shrunk the State Department's cyber diplomacy wing, and fired federal cybersecurity leader Chris Krebs in the aftermath of Donald Trump's Nov. 3 election defeat. Disclosed in December, the hack struck eight federal agencies and numerous companies, including software provider SolarWinds Corp. US intelligence agencies publicly … [Read more...] about After big hack of US government, Biden enlists ‘world class’ cybersecurity team

In November, Vice reported that US Special Operations Command had purchased location data collected by a third-party data broker from an Islamic prayer app called Muslim Pro. The app maker later said it would stop selling its users' location data. The same month, the US Department of Homeland Security came under investigation by its inspector general after Buzzfeed reported an internal memo showed it was collecting phone location data without warrants for immigration enforcement. … [Read more...] about Intelligence agency buys location data on US residents without warrants

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