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Senate Panel Plans Hearings On Cyber Hack, Related Legislation

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, December 18th, 2020

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Senate Panel Plans Hearings On Cyber Hack, Related Legislation

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio).

The Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee early in 2021 plan to hold hearings and work on legislation related to the ongoing intrusion of federal and private sector computer networks allegedly being carried out by a Russian intelligence agency. The hack was first disclosed earlier this month by the cyber security firm FireEye [FEYE], which itself was a victim. The hackers used software updates provided by the network management company SolarWinds [SWI] and…

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