Our national cybersecurity posture and its relative weakness,

that goes back to the era of Reagan in terms of major government studies saying

we are not prepared and we are catastrophically vulnerable.

From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains.

CyberSpace has enabled great prosperity and innovation, encompassing almost every aspect of modern life. But along with it comes danger and vulnerabilities, like the incredibly sophisticated federal data breach discovered in early December.

It may not look like it, but the United States is under attack.

A suspected Russian hacking campaign has penetrated top secret parts of the government.

America under virtual invasion.

That's what Senator Dick Durbin is calling a massive Russian cyber attack on U.S. government agencies.

The scope of the hack is now widening.

America's nuclear weapons agency among those breached, that confirmed today by the Department of Energy.

Officials say they found suspicious activity in the networks that maintain our nuclear weapons stockpile.

Senior intelligence officials say there is little doubt.

The Russians did this and that they're still at it.

As this attack continues, it's not now, nor has it ever been made clear what our leaders plan to do about breaches in American cybersecurity.

But there's at least one positive factor.

Both sides of the aisle are an agreement that something must be done to secure our networks.

Heritage believes it must be done without causing harm.

Here's Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and Republican Senator Rick Scott.

The whole government should be all over it.

It's deeply concerning, deeply distressing, and an extreme challenge for our country.

If Russia is going to do these type of things against our system, and then we ought to

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