Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) The U.S. government appears to be officially blaming Russia for the expansive and damaging SolarWinds hack, which it says was “likely” an “intelligence gathering” effort on the part of a hacker group connected to the Kremlin. The announcement came Tuesday in a joint statement issued by multiple security agencies, including …
Photo: Jeenah Moon (Getty Images) The hackers behind the massive SolarWinds cyberattack, an operation allegedly backed by Russia that compromised networks at many U.S. agencies and Fortune 500 corporations, also broke into Microsoft’s internal systems and accessed one of the company’s most closely guarded secrets: its source code. Advertisement “We detected unusual activity with a …
Photo: Al Drago (Getty Images) Twitter and the White House have both denied reports that a Dutch security researcher was able to log into Donald Trump’s infamous Twitter account with the impossibly easy to guess password “MAGA2020!” But it turns out that really did happen, at least according to Dutch prosecutors. Advertisement Per the Washington …
Photo: Jack Guez (Getty Images) State-sponsored hackers have reportedly tapped into internal email systems at several U.S. federal agencies, including the Treasury Department and the Commerce Department’s internet and telecom branch, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Advertisement Three people briefed on the matter told Reuters under the condition of anonymity that the attackers are …
Chris Krebs, the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, speaks during the department’s Cybersecurity Summit on July 31, 2018 in New York City.Photo: Kevin Hagen (Getty Images) The nation’s top cybersecurity official, Chris Krebs, has led the charge to debunk the flurry of voter fraud conspiracy theories pushed by …
A voter fills out their ballot at Mitchel Community Center on November 3, 2020, in the Bronx borough of New York City.Photo: David Dee Delgado (Getty Images) Despite the president’s near-constant bellyaching about a supposed scourge of voter fraud and secret ballot dumps shaping this year’s election results, his own cybersecurity agency says there’s really …