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7 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
New: The electronic filing system used by federal courts has likely been breached in the SolarWinds hack, extending to another branch of government the impact of a suspected Russian cyber-espionage campaign. wsj.com/articles/feder…
This might be rather significant. Gaining access to sealed judiciary records could be especially valuable to foreign spies because of the extreme sensitivity of info they often contain, like investigative techniques described in search warrants. wsj.com/articles/feder…
“Documents like these are a road map of investigations,” said @SeamusHughes. “In the right hands, they could tip off a target of investigation, be it an individual or a country’s intelligence apparatus.” wsj.com/articles/feder…
tip @Techmeme

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President-elect Biden, in most extensive remarks on the SolarWinds hack to date, says Trump admin needs to clearly and publicly call out who is responsible and that all indications are Russia is the culprit.

“Even if (Trump) does not take it seriously, I will.”
Biden emphasizes cybersecurity is among the gravest threats facing the United States and it should be treated as such across the entire federal government. He likens it to other "unconventional weapons" that can wreck an unprepared nation.
Asked if the SolarWinds hack is an act of war (experts say no), Biden pivots. “First of all, it is a grave risk and it continues. I see no evidence that it is under control ... And the Defense Department won’t even brief us" on it.
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NEW: Major cybersecurity firm FireEye has been hacked in what it says is a highly sophisticated foreign nation-state attack that compromised its Red Team tools. A person familiar with the matter said Russia is the leading suspect.
MORE: The attack used infrastructure not previously seen in attacks elsewhere and appeared very deliberately targeted at FireEye. "This was a sniper shot that got through," a person involved in the response said. wsj.com/articles/u-s-c…
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6 Feb 20
New: The Senate Intelligence Committee just released its bipartisan report on the Obama administration’s response to Russian interference in the 2016 election. Find it here: intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/…
Lisa Monaco recalled a conversation with Mitch McConnell where he stated "you security people should be careful that you're not getting used," which she interpreted as the majority leader doubting the intelligence concluding Russia was trying to interfere.
The Senate report is notably inconclusive on whether the Obama administration's messages to senior Russian officials to knock it off had any effect at all. Notes that the Kremlin's operations continued after the "high-level warnings of potential retaliation."
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4 Feb 20
WARNINGS IGNORED: The Iowa Democratic Party barreled ahead with the use of an unvetted, undisclosed mobile app despite admonishments from security experts. DHS offered to test the app, but was turned away. 1/

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Sen. @RonWyden's office asked the DNC three times about details regarding the app during the run up to the Iowa caucuses, but received no reply, an aide to the senator said. wsj.com/articles/iowa-…
@RonWyden Some campaigns, including Biden and Buttigieg, have used a Shadow-built app to send texts to supporters and solicit donations. But the Biden campaign halted its use of that app amid concerns about its security and reliability after just ONE USE. wsj.com/articles/iowa-…
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SCOOP: Deceased GOP operative Peter Smith secretly raised $100k from 4 donors in Oct. 2016 as part of a project to obtain Hillary Clinton’s emails, an effort that documents and sources say is being actively probed by Mueller

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Smith used a dummy Gmail account with the alias “Robert Tyler” to communicate w/ associates, but others had access to the account. An Oct. 11 email simply signed ROB referred to the money as for “the Washington Scholarship Fund for the Russian students” wsj.com/articles/gop-o…
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