Cybersecurity
Blaming Russia for U.S. Hacks Is Easier Than Responding to Them
- Confidence in origin of attacks raises pressure for response
- ‘We can’t let a foreign adversary’ attack us, McCaul says
Putin Denies Russian Involvement in DNC Hack
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Determining that the Russian government has been hacking political groups and election systems may have been the easy part for the U.S. intelligence community. Now the Obama administration has to decide what, if anything, to do about it.
While officially the FBI and intelligence agencies are still investigating a series of hacks that have roiled the U.S. presidential campaign, a number of cyber specialists who have reviewed the evidence as well as U.S. officials familiar with the investigation say with high confidence that Moscow is to blame.