The Russian Hacking Plan for 2020

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

At the heart of President Trump’s impeachment is his request that Ukraine investigate how his political rival, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., could be connected to an energy company called Burisma. New reporting from The Times suggests that Russian hackers may be trying to fulfill that request — and potentially hack into the 2020 election itself. Guests: Nicole Perlroth, who covers cybersecurity for The Times, spoke with Oren Falkowitz, a former analyst at the National Security Agency and co-founder of the cybersecurity company Area 1. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: The Times has evidence that the same Russian military hackers that stole emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016 have been infiltrating Burisma, the energy company at the center of the Ukraine affair. Here’s what we know about the hackers.New details emerged on Tuesday of Mr. Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine, intensifying demands on Senate Republicans to include witness testimony and additional documents in the impeachment trial.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.
0:33.0	This is The Daily.
0:36.0	Today, at the heart of the impeachment is a request made by President Trump that you
0:45.4	cream, investigate ties between the Biden's and an energy company called Burisma.
0:52.5	Now, new reporting from the Times suggests that Russian hackers may be trying to fulfill
1:00.1	that request.
1:01.9	It's Wednesday, January 15.
1:09.0	Nicole Pororoth, tell me what happened the other day.
1:13.4	So I've been covering cybersecurity at the times for about eight years.
1:18.3	And I've been working on a story for a couple months about threats to the 2020 election.
1:25.5	And as part of that story, I'd been speaking to a source of mine.
1:29.9	His name's Orrin Falcoitz.
1:31.8	He was a former analyst at the National Security Agency.
1:36.5	And now he runs a Silicon Valley company that blocks fishing attacks.
1:41.6	And he's been working with a lot of the Democratic candidates for 2020.
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