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Federal authorities are likely to be looking into security practices at Texas-based SolarWinds and would have secured evidence during a raid on their offices in the wake of the revelations about cyber attacks being launched using the company's supply chain as a vector, a senior infosec practitioner says.

Global networking giant Cisco has expressed grave reservations about several aspects of the Federal Government's proposed encryption bill, with the creation of backdoors one of its major concerns.

A former member of the NSA's elite Tailored Access Operations unit has been sentenced to 5½ years in jail, followed by three years of supervised release, for what the US Justice Department has characterised as "willfull retention of classified national defence information".

An NSA worker, who took huge amounts of classified material home and was arrested in December last year over this, forced the organisation to drop a number of "important initiatives at great economic and operational cost", the former director of the spy agency says.

The US Justice Department's indictment of 12 Russians for alleged hacking offences connected to the 2016 US presidential election on Friday has got at least one ex-NSA hacker fearing a reprisal.

A former NSA contractor, who has been in jail over charges of taking a massive horde of security material to his house, has agreed to plead guilty to the charge of illegal retention of information relating to US national security.