2 Phones & A Hack
Armstrong & Getty On Demand
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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Hour 3 of A&G includes the crazy Solar Winds story, mask experiences, the inside conversation between President Trump and Congressman Kevin McCarthy. Plus, Joe has the details about a very special school.
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| 0:00.0 | The attack was unprecedented in audacity and scope. |
| 0:25.5 | Russian spies went rummaging through the digital files of the U.S. Department of Justice, |
| 0:31.1 | State, Treasury, Energy and Commerce. |
| 0:34.6 | And for nine months had unfettered access to top level communications, court documents, |
| 0:41.1 | even nuclear secrets. |
| 0:43.1 | And by all accounts, it's still going on. |
| 0:46.4 | That's from 60 minutes on Sunday night talking about what they call the solar winds hack |
| 0:51.6 | because solar winds is a popular piece of software that most people have never heard of, |
| 0:56.8 | but most big companies had in their system. |
| 0:59.7 | And somehow, likely the Russians were able to break into the coding of that particular |
| 1:06.8 | piece of software. |
| 1:08.2 | And in fact, 18,000 organizations around the world and all their computers and the virus |
| 1:14.2 | is still spreading. |
| 1:15.5 | It is still doing damage. |
| 1:18.0 | And it is considered the biggest, most damaging hack in world history. |
| 1:23.8 | Now as a guy who knows how to reboot, but little else, I do confess it's impressive |
| 1:29.3 | that they came up with the idea of not hacking into computer systems, but hacking into |
| 1:33.1 | something that systems would willingly take in popular software. |
| 1:38.2 | I mean, that's a brilliant move. |
| 1:40.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:41.8 | So a couple of them are looking for what are they doing? |
| 1:44.2 | What are they up to? |
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