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| Barr: 'Severe' consequences if foreign government behind HHS cyberattack during coronavirus outbreak |
| 2020-03-18 |
| [Washington Examiner] Attorney General William Barr vowed there would be "severe" consequences if a foreign country was behind the cyberattack against the Health and Human Services Department's website on Sunday or behind the false coronavirus rumors swirling in recent days. The HHS website was hit by a denial-of-service cyberattack on Sunday night, apparently designed to disrupt efforts to combat the spread of the growing COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. "When you’re dealing with something like a denial-of-service attack on HHS during a pandemic, that’s a very grave action for another country to take," Barr told the Associated Press on Tuesday. "So, if it is another country doing this, I’m sure the ramifications will be severe." Barr, "Our primary role right now is to investigate" and that "the FBI is very active trying to determine who is responsible for these things." The attorney didn’t take a guess on which foreign nation might be responsible. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 I'm sure he'll pen a sternly worded letter while playing the bagpipes (which would be the "severe consequences" part.) |
| Posted by: charger 2020-03-18 18:51 |
| #9 Says the man who has yet to charge even one of his staff with treason. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2020-03-18 17:51 |
| #8 End our dependence on China. Full stop. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-03-18 11:11 |
| #7 Just offer every English teacher in X a $10,000 bonus for going to Thailand. The mayhem would be legendary. |
| Posted by: Beau 2020-03-18 05:54 |
| #6 ^Start producing everything essential which today comes from China in USA - if necessary give companies lucrative, long term contracts. Double tariffs on anything made in China. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-03-18 05:13 |
| #5 Act of war- agreed. What would be the proper response? |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2020-03-18 05:05 |
| #4 It is indeed an act of war. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-03-18 03:01 |
| #3 Doing this and interrupting critical data is an ace of War of another sort. Indifference. If you prevent Our people from doing this job or interrupt their time in it, you are responsible for deaths. This is in international incident. The host Nation of this can wait on our cures and vaccines since they think this is how it's done, Jerkwads. |
| Posted by: newc 2020-03-18 02:47 |
| #2 I'll take Global Rival / Would-Be Hegemon & Shitty Marsupial-Consuming Asian Dictatorships for $2000, Alex |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-03-18 02:24 |
| #1 My money is on the same folks who initiated the COVID-19 release. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-03-18 00:47 |