12/17/2020

DHS/RUSSIA/TRUMP ADMIN: “President Donald Trump’s former homeland security adviser described the massive data breach of multiple US federal agencies, which US officials suspect is the work of Russian-linked hackers, in urgent terms Wednesday night [Dec. 16, 2020], calling for immediate and decisive action by the President…

US officials are grappling with the widespread cyberattack after the cybersecurity firm FireEye and the software company SolarWinds, used by a number of federal civilian agencies for network management, recently confirmed that their systems were compromised…

Trump himself has yet to acknowledge the hack.”

-Veronica Stracqualursi, “Ex-DHS adviser under Trump calls for urgent action to address suspected Russian cyberattack,” cnn.com, Dec. 17, 2020