“This assault happened on Donald Trump’s watch when he wasn’t watching,’’ Biden said at a news conference in Delaware. Biden acknowledged as much, indirectly, when asked about his statement that he could not ensure government systems could be trusted when he take office. “It was carried out by using sophisticated cybertools, and the attacker succeeded in catching the federal government off guard and unprepared,” Biden said. Moreover, while the United States is awash in digital targets, Russia is a far less connected society, making an “in kind” response more difficult. That is one of several ways Russia is believed to have entered such an array of agencies and corporations.

Source: bd News24 December 23, 2020 05:37 UTC