U.S. President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that certain critical infrastructure should be 'off-limits' to cyber-attacks, while the two leaders agreed in their summit to start cybersecurity talks.
GENEVA, June 16 - U.S. President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that certain critical infrastructure should be "off-limits" to cyber-attacks, while the two leaders agreed in their summit to start cybersecurity talks.
"We agreed to task experts in both our countries to work on specific understandings about what is off-limits," Biden said. "We'll find out whether we have a cybersecurity arrangement that begins to bring some order." The talks follow several major hacking incidents in the United States against important government agencies and American companies that U.S. officials have blamed on Russian hackers.
Putin brought up a ransomware cyber-attack in May that disrupted activity at the Colonial Pipeline in the U.S. Southeast, an attack attributed to a group believed to be based in Russia but one that Putin has said had no link to the Russian state."We need to throw out all kinds of insinuations, sit down at the expert level and start working in the interests of the United States and Russia," Putin said.
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