TO PUT THIS RIGHT.
CONNELL: SCARY STUFF INTO YOUR
POINT SUPER SERIOUS.
MORGAN WRIGHT JOINS US NOW, WE
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS,
THE CHIEF SECURITY ADVISOR
BECAUSE YOU HEAR A LOT WHETHER
THE PRESIDENT OF MICROSOFT WHO
JERRY REFERRED TO AND USED TO
ADVISE THE PRESIDENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY THEY SAID THIS IS
REALLY SERIOUS STUFF AND THEY
ACTUALLY HAD A HEADLINE TODAY
THAT IT LOOKS LIKE THE CYBER
HACK IS AN ACT OF WAR, WHAT ARE
WE DEALING WITH THEM WISES SO
SERIOUS, WHAT ARE WE ACTUALLY
DEALING WITH.
>> WHAT MAKES THE SERIOUS, AN
EXAMPLE IS THE DETECTIVE
BURGLARY, THEY GO TO THE STORE
AND COME BACK AN HOUR LATER IN
THEIR HOME WAS BROKEN INTO, NOT
A LOT OF STUFF CAN HAPPEN, THESE
BURGLARS INSIDER HOMES AND
COMPUTER NETWORKS FOR NINE
MONTHS, THEY WERE SEEING
EVERYTHING THAT WAS GOING ON AND
COLLECTING EVERY BIT OF
INFORMATION AND USING THAT TO
MOVE FROM NOT ONLY THE
COPPERMINE NETWORK BUT INTO
OTHER NETWORKS AND AS WERE
FINDING OUT FROM SUSA AND DHS
SOLAR WINDS APPEARS TO BE NOT
THE ONLY WAY THAT THE ATTACKERS
AND THE RUSSIANS GOT INTO THE
SYSTEM BUT OBVIOUSLY SOLAR WINDS
THE NETWORK SYSTEMS USED BY
300,000 COMPANIES IN THE WORLD,
THEY ALLOW YOU ACCESS IN THE
KEYS TO THE KINGDOM WHICH IS
WHAT THE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
GIVES YOU AS YOU WERE SAYING
EARLIER WE HAVE NOT BEGUN TO
UNDERSTAND WHAT THE DAMAGES AND
HOW MANY AGENCIES AND COMPANIES
HAVE BEEN AFFECTED.
CONNELL: RIGHT, EVERY DAY THIS
WEEK IT SEEMS LIKE YOU LEARN
SOMETHING ELSE, TO SAY THIS IS
WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT, PEOPLE
WOULD IMAGINE IN THEIR HEADS IF
IN THE OLD DAYS SOMEBODY BROKEN
TO THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT AND
THEY WERE HANGING OUT THERE FOR
HOURS AND HOURS YOU WOULD WANT
TO SAY WHAT WOULD THEY TAKE, DID
THEY WALK AROUND AND LOOK AT THE
PAINTING OR TAKE A BUNCH OF
MATERIAL, WITH THESE HACKERS DO
WE KNOW THAT YET, DO WE KNOW IF
THEY TOOK ANYTHING OR HANGING
OUT, WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY KNOW? >> FOR ONE THING, THEY’RE STILL
THERE, HI COMPETENCE IS RUSSIA,
WHOSE TOOLS TACTICS AND
PROCEDURES WE ARE FAMILIAR WITH
BUT THERE’S NEW TOOLS AND
TACTICS AND PROCEDURES THAT
WE’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE, WE
DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT’S BEEN
TAKEN THEY MONITORED E-MAIL AND
OTHER DATA COMMUNICATION, THEY
ARE TAKEN A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF
INFORMATION BUT WHAT THIS IS
RESEMBLE UNDER REPRESENTATIVE
OF, THERE’S BEEN HEADLINES
SAYING THIS IS LIKE AN ACT OF
WAR, WHAT THEY’RE DOING IS
INTELLIGENCE PREPARATION OF THE
BATTLEFIELD BEFORE YOU GO AFTER
AN ADVERSARY YOU COLLECT A LOT
OF INFORMATION GETTING INTO HER
NUCLEAR STOCKPILE UNDERSTANDING
WHAT IS THERE IN THE FEDERAL
ENERGY REGULAR TRADE COMMISSION
AND INNER ENERGY GRID, THEY HAVE
COLLECTED NOT JUST INFORMATION
BUT IN ENTIRE CATALOG OF THE
VULNERABILITIES AND ARE SOFT
SPOTS IN THE UNITED STATES FROM
COMMUNICATION TO FINANCE GOING
AFTER COVID AND VACCINE RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT, THIS WAS JUST
THE EQUIVALENT OF DRUNKEN
SOMEBODY GOING TO THE STORE AND
GRABBING EVERYTHING IN SIGHT AND
PUTTING IT IN THE BASKET AND
WALKING OUT THE FRONT DOOR AND
NOBODY STOPPED THEM, THIS WAS A
MASSIVE INTELLIGENCE.
CONNELL: REAL QUICK AND THEN
WILL KEEP TALKING ABOUT THIS,
HOW DO WE GET RID OF THEM IF
THEY’RE STILL THERE WHETHER
COMPANY OR GOVERNMENT AGENCY, HOW DO YOU GET RID OF THEM?
>> THERE IS NO EASY ANSWER, YOU
CANNOT RIP AND REPLACE THOUSANDS
OF MILES OF ROAD AND YOU CANNOT
RIP AND REPLACE ALL OF YOUR
NETWORKS ALL AT ONCE THEY HAVE
TO COME TO SERIOUS DISCUSSION
WHICH IS TO BE CUT IT OFF, SHUT
IT OFF, WE HAVE TO DO
REMEDIATION BUT BECAUSE THESE
ARE TACTICS THAT WE NEVER SEEN
BEFORE, SOFTWARE THAT WAS
WRITTEN SPECIFICALLY FOR THE
OPERATION, THERE WILL BE A
QUESTION OF TRUST, CAN WE TRUST
OUR NETWORKS ARE SECURE AND THAT WE PUSH THE RUSSIANS OUT AND
WE’VE BEEN ABLE TO CREATE A WHEN
YOU SAY THIS CAN GO ON FOR YEARS
WE MAY NEVER GET BACK, IT’S LIKE
COVID THERE WILL BE NO SUCH
THING AS NORMAL ANYMORE AND WE
WILL NEVER GO BACK TO THE WAY
THINGS WERE, THIS IS AN EARTH
SHATTERING OPERATION THAT WENT
ON AND WILL FOREVER CHANGE HOW
WE VIEW TRUST IN CYBERSECURITY.
CONNELL: WE WILL KEEP REPORTING