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US officials are apparently privately concerned that Russia has stolen blueprints for the recovery of the US eclipse
U.S. officials have said they do not believe the Russian SVR intelligence agency “pierced” classified systems and stole sensitive communications and plans during a suspected cyber attack on hundreds of networks in the United States, reports The New York Times . But according to the Times, the same officials say they are still not sure exactly what was taken or what was not taken. There are concerns that the SVR – which the US intelligence agency and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are confident of – was behind the offense. , although President Trump suggested that China might be involved instead of Moscow – he was able to obtain delicate, albeit unclassified, information from victims such as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. For example, it is alleged that hackers had access to Black Start, the detailed technical blueprints for how the US would recover the force if there was a major eclipse. If that were indeed the case, Russia would theoretically have a list of systems they could envisage to prevent the power from turning on again. The Times report sheds more light on the cyber attack, which for months or even years could not be fully understood. Some of the revelations include the fact that the hack was apparently much wider than originally thought, and that the hackers’ managed their intrusion of servers in the US by exploiting ‘legal bans for the National Security Agency’. Read more at The New York Times. More stories from theweek.com 5 inexcusable funny cartoons about Trump’s disgraceful forgiveness America has always been bustling with vaccine rollout 5 comics over the end of a very, very bad year.