Chris Krebs to Trump: "You can't hack paper"

[DrLove]

You'll remember Donald's tweet day before yesterday suggesting that the "China hack" could have affected voting machines.
Chris should have added "you fucking idiot" but managed to hold his tongue.

• Former top US cybersecurity official Chris Krebs warned on Twitter Saturday not to "conflate" the security of the US voting system with the massive SolarWinds cyberattack.
• "The proof is in the paper," Krebs tweeted, later adding that you "can't hack paper."
• Krebs' warning came shortly after President Donald Trump tweeted there could also have been "a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election."
• Trump also suggested that China could be behind the cyber attack and not Russia, which experts and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have said is likely the culprit.

Btw, President Biden would do well to rehire Chris Krebs.

Former US cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs warned not to 'conflate' voting system security with SolarWinds hack despite Trump's claim

Chris Krebs' warning came after President Donald Trump tweeted there could have been a hit on "our ridiculous voting machines during the election."

www.businessinsider.com

 

[MarathonMike]

You'll remember Donald's tweet day before yesterday suggesting that the "China hack" could have affected voting machines.
Chris should have added "you fucking idiot" but managed to hold his tongue.

• Former top US cybersecurity official Chris Krebs warned on Twitter Saturday not to "conflate" the security of the US voting system with the massive SolarWinds cyberattack.
• "The proof is in the paper," Krebs tweeted, later adding that you "can't hack paper."
• Krebs' warning came shortly after President Donald Trump tweeted there could also have been "a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election."
• Trump also suggested that China could be behind the cyber attack and not Russia, which experts and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have said is likely the culprit.

Btw, President Biden would do well to rehire Chris Krebs.

Former US cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs warned not to 'conflate' voting system security with SolarWinds hack despite Trump's claim

Chris Krebs' warning came after President Donald Trump tweeted there could have been a hit on "our ridiculous voting machines during the election."

www.businessinsider.com

Chris Krebs? Oh yeah the CyberSecurity Official who left gaping holes in US internet security allowing the greatest cyber attack in history.

 

[DrLove]

Chris Krebs? Oh yeah the CyberSecurity Official who left gaping holes in US internet security allowing the greatest cyber attack in history.

Nope - In the case of this attack, it came from within the US and it exploited ancient legacy systems. There was no funding for "things that don't look normal" under the Dotard.

Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Krebs, who was director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency when the cyberattack is thought to have begun, as early as March, said that he was not aware of the hack until it was detected by cybersecurity firm FireEye earlier this month.​

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“We missed it … a bunch of other folks missed it,” said Krebs, explaining that the hack was possible because of outdated systems across government agencies that have not been “optimized” to proactively defend against unknown attacks.​

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“This was a never-before-seen capability that computer systems weren’t designed to detect,” said Krebs, emphasizing that the Russians are “exceptionally good at this sort of work.”​

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CISA, an agency created within the Department of Homeland Security in 2017, has not been granted the authority to search for “things that don’t look normal,” according to Krebs, who said that these capabilities will be granted by the new defense spending bill, which is currently sitting on Trump’s desk waiting to be signed.​

‘It Happened On My Watch’: Chris Krebs Says Russia Exploited Outdated Systems For Cyberattack

Cybersecurity experts say Russia used ‘utterly clandestine’ and ‘never-before-seen’ capabilities for its U.S. hack.

www.forbes.com