He further warns that federal responses to these attacks have been feckless and shrouded in a secrecy that makes prevention harder. America, he notes, is hardly innocent, having engineered the Stuxnet attack on Iranian nuclear centrifuges and a possible sabotage of North Korean missiles. power and communications grids Russian hacks of White House, Pentagon, and NSA networks, the last putting secret American hacking tools in the hands of miscreants and Iranian and Chinese hacks of banks, corporations, and government databases. Sanger rehashes the notorious Russian hacks during the 2016 American election along with lesser-known digital assaults on the United States, including the installation of Russian malware on systems that control-and could shut down-U. Computer and cyber warfare is a burgeoning mode of conflict that poses serious threats to the United States, Pulitzer-winning New York Times correspondent Sanger ( Confront and Conceal) argues in this perhaps overly worried investigation.
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