{"id":30081,"date":"2020-12-18T22:08:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T06:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30081"},"modified":"2020-12-18T22:08:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T06:08:54","slug":"lawmakers-ask-whether-massive-hack-amounted-to-act-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30081","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers ask whether massive hack amounted to act of war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lawmakers are raising questions about whether the attack on the federal government widely attributed to Russia constitutes an act of war.<\/p>\n

The hacking may represent the biggest cyberattack in U.S history, and officials are scrambling to respond.<\/p>\n

The response is further complicated by the presidential transition \u2014\u00a0President Trump<\/a>\u00a0has yet to comment publicly on the attack \u2014 and the fact that the U.S. has no clear cyber warfare strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t be buddies with\u00a0Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u00a0and have him at the same time making this kind of cyberattack on America,\u201d Senate Minority Whip\u00a0Dick Durbin<\/a>\u00a0(D-Ill.) said of the attack during an interview Wednesday on CNN. \u201cThis is virtually a declaration of war by Russia on the United States and we should take that seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen.\u00a0Mitt Romney<\/a>\u00a0(R-Utah) on Thursday compared the incident to Russian bombers “flying undetected over the entire country,” and harshly criticized Trump for not doing enough to counter the attack.<\/p>\n

“Our national security is extraordinarily vulnerable,” Romney said on SiriusXM’s “The Big Picture with Olivier Knox.” “In this setting, not to have the White House aggressively speaking out and protesting and taking punitive action is really, really quite extraordinary.”<\/p>\n

Hackers believed to be part of a nation state have had access to federal networks since March after exploiting a vulnerability in updates to IT group SolarWinds\u2019s Orion software. The hack has compromised the Treasury, State and Homeland Security departments and branches of the Pentagon, though it is expected to get worse. SolarWinds counts many more federal agencies as customers, along with the majority of U.S. Fortune 500 companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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