Re:Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
by ineedasername on Thursday December 17, 2020 @10:41PM
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Nobody worry: There's a security company named SolarWinds that has a lot of experience when it comes to getting hacked, and they've already got contracts with the Federal government. Working together, I'm sure the Feds & SolarWinds can leverage those existing relationships to help get to the bottom of this situation and make sure it never happens again.
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Re:Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
by ineedasername on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:10PM
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They're a government contractor. In all probability they give to both parties, and have lobbyists in D.C. taking congressional aides on both sides of the aisle out for cocktails on a regular basis.
What it comes down to is that incompetence is very much bipartisan, if not outright apolitical.
Re:Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
by javaIsGreat on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:06PM
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I see this company has been consulting for government agencies for 20 years so idk if you can blame Trump for this one,
But it does look like the founders (who don't seem to be be involved with the company anymore for almost a decade) are repubs (biggest donation is 10K and mostly to Oklahoma and Texas regional politicians not national candidates):
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?...