{"id":36812,"date":"2021-06-23T18:39:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36812"},"modified":"2021-06-23T18:39:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:39:36","slug":"fbi-on-the-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36812","title":{"rendered":"FBI ON THE MONEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday told a Senate panel that a request for a $40 million increase in its cybersecurity budget for the upcoming fiscal year would go in part towards combating increasing and damaging ransomware attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur budget request, the enhancements we requested, include 155 positions and $40 million for cyber, and a huge part of that will be going very much to the ransomware campaign that we are working on,\u201d Wray testified to the Senate Appropriations Committee\u2019s Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Wray noted that the FBI is currently investigating over 100 types of ransomware variations, each of which he said had \u201cscores and scores of victims,\u201d and that enhancing the FBI\u2019s ability to address ransomware attacks is a top priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36813,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36812\/revisions\/36813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}