Biden Tells Putin Certain Cyber-Attacks Should Be 'Off-Limits'

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. From a report: Biden said the list of organizations that should not be attacked includes the 16 sectors designated by the United States as critical infrastructure. The sectors, based on a description published by the U.S. Homeland Security Department, include telecommunications, healthcare, food and energy. '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.' In a separate press conference, Putin said he agreed to 'begin consultations' on cybersecurity issues. He also said that while the United States had requested information from Russia about recent cyber-attacks, Moscow had similarly asked for information about attacks he said were coming from the U.S. side and had not received a response.

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