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No Cyber Security Surprises In Mueller Report, Krebs Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019

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No Cyber Security Surprises In Mueller Report, Krebs Says

Christopher Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS. Photo: DHS

Despite some additional detail about cyber hacking by Russia during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, there were no surprises in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report last week given what was already uncovered by the intelligence community, the top cyber security official at the Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday. The report “was pretty consistent with the intelligence community assessment [and] with the indictments of last summer” of Russian officials in connection with Russian interference in the 2016 election, Christopher…

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