By COLlive reporter
Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, joined White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday to deliver a Press Conference on the hacking of government systems that caused damage that has yet to be determined.
Neuberger, an Orthodox Jewish woman who is originally from Boro Park, was appointed by President Joe Biden to serve in a newly created cybersecurity role on his National Security Council.
“Hackers launched a broad and indiscriminate effort to compromise the network management software used by both government and the private sector,” she updated the press. “The intelligence community is looking at who is responsible. Until that study is complete, I’ll use the language we previously used, which was to say an advanced persistent threat actor, likely of Russian origin, was responsible.”
“As of today, 9 federal agencies and about 100 private sector companies were compromised,” she said, adding that roughly 18,000 entities downloaded the malicious update. “The scale of potential access far exceeded the number of known compromises. Many of the private sector compromises are technology companies, including networks of companies whose products could be used to launch additional intrusions.”
Neuberger was previously the National Security Agency’s Director of Cybersecurity, where she led NSA’s cybersecurity mission. Prior to that role, she led NSA’s election security effort and served as Assistant Deputy Director of NSA’s Operations Directorate, overseeing foreign intelligence and cybersecurity operations.
A proud Orthodox Jewish woman, Neuberger has been described as unusually talented and a problem solver by those who worked with her in the past.
Also known as Chani and currently living in Baltimore, she is a daughter of holocaust survivors, and her parents were aboard the airplane that was hijacked to Entebbe in 1976. Her family generously supports philanthropic causes in the Jewish community.
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