It appears to have been the hack of the century.
It targeted the U.S. Commerce Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the Pentagon, the Treasury Department, the Energy Department, the U.S. Postal Service, and the National Institutes of Health.
The intruders spent months exploring U.S. government networks and stealing sensitive data.
And the whole thing appears to have been a sophisticated espionage operation masterminded by the SVR, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service.
So what does it mean? And what happens now?
John Sipher, 28-year CIA veteran, and David Venable, a former intelligence officer for the U.S. National Security Agency and current vice president of cyber security at Masergy, join the conversation this week to discuss Russia’s recent cyber-attack on the U.S. government.
The Power Vertical Podcast is produced by the University of Texas at Arlington’s Charles T. McDowell Center for Global Studies and the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center.
