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But if you fail to enable a single coup, you get called a perjurious democrat and lumped in with Hillary Clinton.File types | Find file converter | Software | Articles | FAQs | Privacy policy | About us | RSS He was a Bush guy, then a Chris Christie guy, then a Trump guy who carried more water than he should have. I'll note that all the RW hate for Wray is strange. The relevant perjury statute applies against those who "willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true." This is pretty different from requiring that everything said be "exactly correct from all points of view and with all combinations of the meanings of the words used." "Widely viewed" is a lot like "a lot of people are saying": I suppose it depends on your definition of "widely" or "a lot." But there have been less than a dozen convictions for perjury before Congress in the last 60 years, so considering the number of people who have testified before Congress in that time, it is not a very effective trap. "If we had to go from scratch," Wosar said, "it would have taken about four hours." The process was speedy because the firm was familiar with REvil's ransomware.
It extracted the key from what the FBI provided Kaseya, created a new decryptor and tested it - all within 10 minutes, according to Fabian Wosar, Emsisoft chief technology officer. "There's a lot of engineering that's required to develop a tool" that can be used by victims, he said at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing.Įmsisoft, however, was able to act quickly. He also suggested that "testing and validating" the decryption key contributed to the delay. "We make the decisions as a group, not unilaterally," he said, noting that he had to constrain his remarks because the investigation was ongoing. Wray, testifying before Congress, indicated the delay stemmed in part from working jointly with allies and other agencies. By then, it was too late for some victims. Kaseya asked New Zealand-based security firm Emsisoft to create a fresh decryption tool, which Kaseya released the following day. The FBI finally shared the key with Kaseya, the IT company whose software was infected with malware, on July 21 - 19 days after it was hit. government intervention - and the hackers disappeared before the FBI had a chance to execute its plan, according to the current and former officials.
The planned takedown never occurred because in mid-July REvil's platform went offline - without U.S. Also, a government assessment found the harm was not as severe as initially feared. But the FBI held on to the key, with the agreement of other agencies, in part because it was planning to carry out an operation to disrupt the hackers, a group known as REvil, and the bureau did not want to tip them off. Deploying it immediately could have helped the victims, including schools and hospitals, avoid what analysts estimate was millions of dollars in recovery costs. The key was obtained through access to the servers of the Russia-based criminal gang behind the July attack. America's Federal Bureau of Investigation "refrained for almost three weeks from helping to unlock the computers of hundreds of businesses and institutions hobbled by a major ransomware attack this summer," reports the Washington Post, " even though the bureau had secretly obtained the digital key needed to do so, according to several current and former U.S.