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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Biden will address the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack at 11:50 a.m.
President Biden will address the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack at 11:50 a.m. Watch live on WTOP.com (or wherever).
C_U_L8R
(45,013 posts)I've had it with hackers
Botany
(70,551 posts)BTW according to Malcolm Nance the hackers (who are in Russia I think) could not have
done their attack without help from Russian intelligence.
ScratchCat
(2,002 posts)That there is likely no reason this couldn't have happened when Trump was still in power, so it certainly makes you wonder why this happened now.
Botany
(70,551 posts)BTW this was after and or when Trump fired 2 people who in charge of our Cyber Security.
Did Trump do that in order to pay off some of the money he owes Russia or was he paid?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_federal_government_data_breach
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)It is criminal that Trump didn't build in more redundency.
ONE shutdown is killing an entire region.
Can you imagine the damage a coordinated attack on our pipelines would do?
THIS needs to be added to our infrastructure bill.