U.S. Government IT Systems Are Completely Compromised And Will Require A Total Rebuild

Last week a cybersecurity firm named Layer3 Intel quietly announced that they'd found something troubling: numerous Trump administration officials had installed dodgy Russian proxy spyware on their computers at the White House, potentially allowing unauthorized access to U.S. government networks. This kind of proxy software allows users to mask their IP address, spoof their real location, or "rent" bandwidth for as little as 60 cents a Gigabyte. Often computers are unknowingly infected with such software, then used in massive botnet attacks. Needless to say, this shouldn't be happening at ordinary companies with competently run IT departments, much less the White House, where you can now apparently access extremely-sensitive government IT networks and secrets for far less than the cost of a cup of coffee.At least one of the 28 (!) dodgy proxy services found installed on numerous White House computers (Infatica) is linked to a Russian company whose founder’s web hosting business was…

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