Cyber attack

dealmaker said:
Pompeo says it is Russia...

https://nypost.com/2020/12/19/russia-behind-massive-u-s-government-hack-pompeo/
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Here4money said:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/politics/pompeo-us-government-hack-russia/index.html
Trump downplays massive cyber hack on government after Pompeo links attack to Russia
(CNN)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday publicly linked Russia to a massive cyberattack on US federal government agencies, calling the data breach "a very significant effort" in remarks the President appeared to contradict Saturday.

"This was a very significant effort, and I think it's the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity," Pompeo said in an interview Friday on "The Mark Levin Show."

"I can't say much more as we're still unpacking precisely what it is, and I'm sure some of it will remain classified," he added.

In his first public comments on the hack, President Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to undercut Pompeo's remarks, downplaying the breach in a pair of tweets and suggesting without evidence "it may be China" that's responsible.

Instead of condemning the attack, or Russia, Trump wrote that he had been "fully briefed and everything is well under control" -- despite officials in his administration having said this week that the cyberattack "poses a grave risk" to networks across both the public and private sector.
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Truth is, nobody knows shit because people in the administration and in most agencies in the US are mediocre at best. A single guy (Snowden) played cat and mouse with the US for years. And that guy is not particularly Einstein.
 
This is the mother of all hacks imo (regardless who's behind it).

You can assume that all major financial institutions are impacted by this hack - solarwinds had 425 of the fortune 500 companies as their customers. Once hackers establish persistence in these networks it's really hard to get them out for good.
 
athlonmank8 said:
It wasnt MSFT.
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https://www.crn.com/news/security/microsoft-s-role-in-solarwinds-breach-comes-under-scrutiny
Microsoft’s Role In SolarWinds Breach Comes Under Scrutiny
Microsoft has become ensnared in probes surrounding the colossal U.S. government hack, with media reports and company messages focusing on Office 365, Azure Active Directory and a key domain name.
Here4money said:
Well no shit, of course he'd compromise national security for a vendetta

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon...aims-improper-pressure-from-trump-11575905528

Amazon Bid Protest on JEDI Claims ‘Improper Pressure’ From Trump
Company says president wanted to harm Bezos in awarding of cloud-computing deal to Microsoft

WASHINGTON—Amazon.com Inc. said President Trump exerted “improper pressure” on the Pentagon to keep a lucrative cloud-computing deal from going to his perceived political enemy, company founder Jeffrey Bezos.

In a complaint filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, Amazon said the president “launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks” on the contract and the company to steer the contract away from Amazon. Mr. Trump’s aim was “to harm his perceived political enemy—Jeffrey P. Bezos,” according to the...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/09/amazon-blames-trump-for-losing-jedi-cloud-contract.html
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Here4money said:
I hope Amazon sues the government, then Trump when he's out of office

https://www.cnet.com/news/trump-ord...zon-out-of-10b-contract-book-reportedly-says/

Trump ordered Defense chief to 'screw Amazon' out of $10B contract, book reportedly says

The president directed former Defense Secretary James Mattis to push Amazon out of the bidding for a lucrative cloud computing deal, a bio of Mattis reportedly says.

President Donald Trump ordered former Defense Secretary James Mattis to "screw Amazon" out of the chance to bid on a $10 billion Pentagon contract, a new biography of Mattis says, according to a report this week by military-focused website Task & Purpose.

The cloud computing services contract, for the Defense Department's Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), was awarded to Microsoft on Friday. Trump issued his directive to Mattis during a phone call last year, the biography said, according to Task & Purpose, which received an advance copy. CNET hasn't reviewed the biography, Holding the Line: Inside Trump's Pentagon With Secretary Mattis, by Guy Snodgrass, a former speechwriter for Mattis.

Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, are favorite targets of Trump, whose attacks are widely seen as stemming from unflattering coverage by the Bezos-owned Washington Post.

According to Task & Purpose, the biography says that during a meeting, Mattis told Snodgrass and others about Trump's order and said, "We're not going to do that. This will be done by the book, both legally and ethically."
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