At least five federal agencies are confirmed to have been breached as part of a months-long hacking campaign tied to Russia. While the full extent of the breach remains to be determined, Tarah Wheeler explains how a surreptitiously inserted backdoor in a software update from the firm SolarWinds enabled the hack, and what the incoming Biden administration can do to raise the bar on U.S. cybersecurity.
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Tarah Wheeler
Cyber Project Fellow
- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University,
International Security Fellow
- New America
@tarah
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Podcast: How did the U.S. government get hacked?
December 16, 2020