Barely a month before assuming office, U.S President-elect Donald Trump shrugged off speculations that the recently concluded elections were influenced by Russian hackers.
Amid criticisms hurled against him, the most recent of which was that Russians intervened in the elections by hacking into the government systems, Trump stood to his ground, the USA Today reported.
Trump also discounted dismissed allegations that the Russians have intervened to secure his victory in the last elections against Democrat Hillary Clinton. This, despite earlier reports from the government's intelligence community indicating that Russia may have influenced the last elections.
The report prompted a group in the U.S Senate, which is composed of members from both parties, to initiate a probe on the veracity of the reports that Russians may have influenced the last elections.
But Trump was quick to lambast the report, which Trump called as 'ridiculous'. Sought for comments, Trump said the report was just a form of 'another excuse'. The Republican president said he does not believe that Russians were behind any illegal activities that may have had influence the elections that secured his way into the White House.
On Monday, Trump tweeted that outrightly discounted the possibility of Russian infiltration into the US systems. For him, it's almost impossible to catch hackers unless they are caught red handed.
But in a report from the CNN, Barak Klinghofer, co-founder and chief product officer at Hexadite said this is absolutely untrue.
"Cyber criminals always leave evidence behind and forensic cybersecurity capabilities have advanced to the point where we can identify and analyze hacks faster than ever before," said Klinghofer was quoted as saying by the USA Today.
Those who have personal knowledge in hacking someone else's systems just couldn't agree with Trump on catching a hacker. For them, it doesn't need to catch them while performing the act.
