10 Democrats Prod NSA Over Juniper, SolarWinds Attacks

Explain why it didn't previously act to protect government from supply chain hacks like Juniper and SolarWinds, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and eight House Democrats wrote the NSA Friday. They criticized the agency for not acting in the 2015 Juniper Networks attack (see 2006100023), which they said is similar to the recent SolarWinds hack (see 2101260066). “Despite promising a full investigation after it announced the breach, Juniper has never publicly accounted for the incident,” the group said. Congress must determine the root cause of the Juniper attack and NSA’s role in the design and promotion of the “flawed encryption algorithm” that played a “central role,” the lawmakers wrote. NSA declined to comment.