Trump moved cyber security budget to pay for his wall before major hacking assault

[Bob Juch]

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A former FBI deputy has alleged that President Trump has been diverting money from cybersecurity resources to build a wall at a time when the “nation is under attack”.

Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday about a report published in Politico that revealed that hackers accessed systems at the National Nuclear Security Administration, Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI deputy director for counterintelligence, said that the reason such attacks are occurring is that the budget for cybersecurity under the Trump administration had been squeezed in order to prioritize other things.

[Bob78164]

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-moved-cybe ... 17470.html

A former FBI deputy has alleged that President Trump has been diverting money from cybersecurity resources to build a wall at a time when the “nation is under attack”.

Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday about a report published in Politico that revealed that hackers accessed systems at the National Nuclear Security Administration, Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI deputy director for counterintelligence, said that the reason such attacks are occurring is that the budget for cybersecurity under the Trump administration had been squeezed in order to prioritize other things.

It was certainly a bad idea to move the money, but I think it's an overstatement to say that the attacks are occurring or succeeded because the money was moved. They successfully hit Microsoft as well, and I'm pretty sure Microsoft doesn't stint on security. --Bob

[Bob Juch]

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-moved-cybe ... 17470.html

A former FBI deputy has alleged that President Trump has been diverting money from cybersecurity resources to build a wall at a time when the “nation is under attack”.

Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday about a report published in Politico that revealed that hackers accessed systems at the National Nuclear Security Administration, Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI deputy director for counterintelligence, said that the reason such attacks are occurring is that the budget for cybersecurity under the Trump administration had been squeezed in order to prioritize other things.

It was certainly a bad idea to move the money, but I think it's an overstatement to say that the attacks are occurring or succeeded because the money was moved. They successfully hit Microsoft as well, and I'm pretty sure Microsoft doesn't stint on security. --Bob

We don't know the extent of the penetrations. Microsoft may have blocked access with firewalls. They and the government agencies haven't reported exactly which systems were hit.