{"id":137621,"date":"2020-12-19T23:44:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T20:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ex-cyber-official-escapes-blame-for-government-hack\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T23:44:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T20:44:22","slug":"ex-cyber-official-escapes-blame-for-government-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ex-cyber-official-escapes-blame-for-government-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ex-cyber official escapes blame for government hack"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Ex-cyber official escapes blame for government hack<\/strong>”
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It\u2019s the hack attack that lacks blowback.<\/p>\n

Christopher Krebs was the director of the federal government\u2019s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in March, when a massive breach of the nation\u2019s computer systems \u2014 allegedly conducted by Russia \u2014 took hold and began to spread.<\/p>\n

But while Krebs became a media<\/a> darling last month, when he was fired by President Trump for naysaying the boss\u2019s accusations of widespread election fraud, he has escaped any blame for the damaging breach.<\/p>\n

Trump used Twitter this week to launch a fresh attack on Krebs \u2014 not for the cyberattack <\/strong>on the SolarWinds server software that was revealed Sunday, but for the former aide\u2019s app<\/a>earance at a Senate committee hearing on election security.<\/p>\n

\u201cChris Krebs was totally excoriated and proven wrong at the Senate Hearing on the Fraudulent 2020 Election,\u201d Trump insisted <\/a>Wednesday.<\/p>\n

But he has refrained from pinning any blame for the cyber intrusion on Krebs, who served as the first and only director of CISA, a division within the Department of Homeland Security that was formed in 2018.<\/p>\n

Senators held off from grilling<\/a> Krebs on the breach when he appeared on Capitol Hill for Wednesday\u2019s election hearing, Fox News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

And Krebs himself has taken no responsibility for his failure to protect against \u2014 or, apparently, to detect \u2014 the months-long hack attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have the utmost confidence in the @CISAgov team and other Federal partners,\u201d Krebs tweeted Sunday<\/a>, as the news broke. \u201cI\u2019m sorry I\u2019m not there with them, but they know how to do this.\u201d\n <\/div>\n