'Some of America’s most deeply held institutional secrets may have been stolen in a large hacking operation..'

'Some of America’s most deeply held institutional secrets may have been stolen in a large hacking operation being blamed on elite Russian government operatives.

Intrigue surrounds what may have been exposed, from nuclear secrets to Covid-19 vaccine data to next-generation weapons systems.'

- Deep US institutional secrets may have been exposed in hack blamed on Russia, December 16, 2020



'That malware gave elite hackers remote access to an organization’s networks so they could steal information.

Doing so may not have been difficult. Vinoth Kumar, a security researcher, told Reuters that, last year, he alerted the company that anyone could access SolarWinds’ update server by using the password “solarwinds123”.'

- What you need to know about the biggest hack of the US government in years, December 15, 2020



Context

Suspected Russian hack is much worse than first feared: Here’s what you need to know, December 18, 2020

What we know – and still don’t – about the worst-ever US government cyber attack, December 19, 2020

(Digital Pearl Harbor - Cyberwarfare) - Russian cyber attack against US: Worst may be yet to come, experts fear .. 'Donald Trump's lack of response "extraordinary"..'


(SolarWinds hack) - 'Put simply, we need a more effective national and global strategy to protect against cyberattacks.'

(SolarWinds hack - Digital Pearl Harbor - Cyberwarfare) - '..the SolarWinds Orion software vulnerability disclosed earlier this week is not the only way hackers compromised a variety of online networks..'

(SolarWinds hack - Digital Pearl Harbor - Cyberwarfare) - Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught