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White House Weighs New Cybersecurity Approach After Failure to Detect Hacks
Representative Mike Gallagher, Republican of Wisconsin, said, "When not one but two cyberhacks have gone undetected by the federal government in such a short period of time, its hard to say that we dont have a problem.
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The sophisticated hacks pulled off by Russia and China against a broad array of government and industrial targets in the United States — and the failure of the intelligence agencies to detect them — are driving the Biden administration and Congress to rethink how the nation should protect itself from growing cyberthreats.
Both hacks exploited the same gaping vulnerability in the existing system: They were launched from inside the United States — on servers run by Amazon, GoDaddy and smaller domestic providers — putting them out of reach of the early warning system run by the National Security Agency.
The agency, like the C.I.A. and other American intelligence agencies, is prohibited by law from conducting surveillance inside the United States, to protect the privacy of American citizens.
From The New York Times
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