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It seems no one bothered to notify the US government about the Meltdown and Spectre chip bugs when they were discovered. It seems no one bothered to notify the US government about the Meltdown and Spectre chip bugs when they were discovered.
In an open session of the Senate committee's annual Worldwide Threat Assessment hearing on Tuesday, all six intelligence chiefs told Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, that they stood by the conclusions of a January 2017 assessment that said the Russian government -- at President Vladimir Putin's instruction -- "That this is going to happen, and the resilience needed for us to stand up and say we're not going to allow some Russian to tell us how to vote, how to run our country," Coats, who leads the nation's 17 intelligence agencies, said. "I think there needs to be a national cry for that."
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said of President Trump's speech at the U.N today, "In over 30 years in my experience with the UN, I never heard a bolder or more courageous speech." Netanyahu's speech to the U.N. wasn't bad either.
Any such requests undergo rigorous legal reviews, and USA officials have said all such requests under Obama , a Democrat, were conducted properly. Flynn had previously invoked his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination in declining an earlier subpoena from the committee, which sought a wide array of documents and information related to his contacts with Russian Federation.
Mrs. Trump, who is not yet living in the White House full time, greeted President Donald Trump on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews before a trip to Florida. The Trumps are playing host this weekend at their Florida estate to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Ake.
A US official familiar with the US intelligence assessment of the Russia election-related hacking said the understanding is that the operation was carried out with sophisticated hacking tools, the equivalent of those used by the US National Security Agency. The use of the advanced tools suggests Russian President Vladimir Putin was involved in the hacks, a person familiar with the matter said, adding that it was more than a US intelligence assumption at this point.
Citing unnamed sources, the Financial Times reported that the chipmaker is looking at spinning off McAfee, which it bought in 2010 for $7.7 billion and incorporated into its Intel Security division. "I never understood why a chip manufacturer would have purchased a suite of software security products in the first place.