{"id":661,"date":"2022-04-21T16:16:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/?p=661"},"modified":"2022-04-21T16:16:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:16:06","slug":"preparation-not-panic-top-us-cyber-official-asks-americans-to-look-out-for-russian-hacking-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/2022\/04\/21\/preparation-not-panic-top-us-cyber-official-asks-americans-to-look-out-for-russian-hacking-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201c\u2018Preparation, not panic\u2019: Top US cyber official asks Americans to look out for Russian hacking efforts\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Sean Lyngaas<\/p>\n<p>3\/26\/22<\/p>\n<p>To summarize this article, the United States Government is essentially worried that Russians could utilize cyber attacks to spread misinformation to United States citizens regarding Ukraine happenings. To quote cyber expert Jen Esterly, the director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, \u201cAll businesses, all critical infrastructure owners and operators need to assume that disruptive cyber activity is something that the Russians are thinking about, that are preparing for, that are exploring options.\u201d The Biden administration referenced the pipeline hacking that occurred in 2021, and they are wary about Russia\u2019s cyber capacity. It is important that owner\u2019s in charge of critical infrastructure are aware of this capacity, and that they are also investing in network defenses against such attacks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/26\/politics\/jen-easterly-interview-russia-cnntv\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/26\/politics\/jen-easterly-interview-russia-cnntv\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-Alex Knoll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sean Lyngaas 3\/26\/22 To summarize this article, the United States Government is essentially worried that Russians could utilize cyber attacks to spread misinformation to United States citizens regarding Ukraine happenings. To quote cyber expert Jen Esterly, the director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, \u201cAll businesses, all critical infrastructure owners and operators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[663943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-instructor","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}