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But after one of the most successful cyber intrusion campaigns in U.S. history, questions are being raised over how the federal government was so completely blindsided by an attack many experts have seen coming.The successful hacking of multiple federal agencies and tens of thousands of individual federal and private entities — widely presumed to be a Russian intrusion and which federal officials warn is ongoing — managed to subvert sophisticated protections by targeting third-party software contractor SolarWinds.“We shouldn’t have been surprised, the Russians are very sophisticated, they are very dedicated and relentless, and this appeared to be a soft target they were able to exploit,” Christopher Painter, the former State Department cybersecurity coordinator under both the Trump and Obama administrations, told The Hill on Friday. “This cyber attack likely perpetrated by the Russians spotlights the glaring vulnerabilities of our federal cybersecurity system,” Sen. Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsLawmakers call for Trump to take action on massive government hack Sen. Alexander plays Christmas carols in Senate office building No, Biden hasn't won yet — one more nightmare scenario MORE (R-Maine), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, tweeted Friday.“The President should immediately sign the NDAA not only to keep our military strong but also because it contains significant cyber security provisions that would help thwart future attacks,” she added.
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