Hackers gained access to U.S. government systems in a months-long act of cyberespionage. While the full extent of the security breach is still being determined, Tarah Wheeler explains the third-party software vulnerability that enabled the hack, and what the incoming Biden administration’s priorities should be to meet a higher bar for U.S. cybersecurity.
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Participants
Tarah Wheeler
Cyber Project Fellow
- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University,
International Security Fellow
- New America
@tarah
Adrianna Pita
Host, The Current
- Office of Communications, Brookings
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PodcastHow did the US government get hacked?
December 16, 2020
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