US Home Committees to Maintain Listening to on SolarWinds Hack on 26 February

17:26 GMT 22.02.2021Get quick URL

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US Home Oversight and Homeland Safety committees introduced on Monday that they’ll maintain a joint listening to on 26 February concerning the function of personal tech within the hacking of the pc firm SolarWinds.

“On Friday February 26, 2021, at 9 am ET, the Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Committee on Homeland Safety will host a joint distant listening to on ‘Weathering the Storm: The Function of Non-public Tech within the SolarWinds Breach and Ongoing Marketing campaign,'” the committees mentioned in a listening to discover.

Lawmakers will look at the function of the personal sector in stopping, investigating, and remediating the SolarWinds breach, together with the necessity to strengthen cybersecurity throughout the federal authorities networks.

The important thing witnesses on the listening to will embody SolarWinds President and CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna, former SolarWinds CEO Kevin Thompson, FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia, and Microsoft President Brad Smith.

Final week, US Nationwide Safety Adviser Jake Sullivan instructed CNN america is weeks away from taking the primary steps in response to the SolarWinds hacking assault that has often been attributed to Russia.

US officers say that Russian hackers are doubtless behind the large cyberattack that focused quite a few US federal authorities entities and corporations. Intruders reportedly used corrupted SolarWinds software program to put in malicious packages.

Russia has denied the allegations as groundless.