Trump moved the cyber security budget to pay for his wall before the big hacking attack

A former FBI deputy has accused President Trump of diverting money from cyber security resources to build a wall at a time when “the nation is under attack.”

He spoke to MSNBC on Thursday about the released report Politics It was revealed that hackers had approached organizations in the National Atomic Energy Security Administration, and former FBI Deputy Director of Counter-Investigation Frank Figulosi said the reason for such attacks was that the budget for cyber security under the Trump administration had been squeezed out to give priority to others. Things.

“Make no mistake, our nation is under attack and it continues to do so,” Mr Bigelow said. “How can something like this happen? The Russians were able to find a point of failure in our supply chain where 300,000 customers of a private company could be affected, including the most important agencies of our government.”

“This product from Solarwinds is a network management product that is widely and widely used by all government agencies and many of our telecommunications companies. Ten of them have been compromised as far as we know – so far, this is a major issue for supply chain management, Nicole.”

He said it was not simply an intelligence failure, but “a national security failure.”

“It is the security of our nation and organizations and the failure to oversee our supply chain in the form of allowing one company to serve our many government agencies,” he said.

“The Russians discovered that weakness and took advantage of it. We are still learning the extent of the damage. Now our nuclear components are affected and one of the words that jumped out of there is damaged,” Natasha said.

Thursday, Politics Announced The Department of Energy and the National Atomic Energy Agency, which maintains the U.S. nuclear arsenal, have discovered that hackers have access to their networks as part of a comprehensive espionage operation that has affected at least half a dozen federal organizations.

Mr Bigely explained why he thinks cyber security resources are underfunded: “A president is turning to us for money, building billions, building a wall, replacing staff at the top of the Pentagon, a strategy we have never heard of or a response to this ongoing attack.”

He says such attacks often occur because “no one from the Oval Office is responsible for the entire intelligence community.”

“It’s like 9/11, we need congressional oversight and an increase to find out what happened in the name of heaven, where failures occurred, we need supervision and coordination as before.

He also warned that problems awaited the president-elect who should take cyber-attacks more seriously. “This is Warfare and Battlefield, which means Joe Biden is going to fight another type of cyber virus one day.”