{"id":40430,"date":"2021-09-24T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T18:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40430"},"modified":"2021-09-24T14:58:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T21:58:46","slug":"deep-in-the-heart-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40430","title":{"rendered":"Deep in the heart of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The Port of Houston, a major U.S. port, was targeted in an attempted cyber attack last month,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fnnrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcgldsyjdsg_lkjmjjgkgrmngkjmhzhh.html?a=&amp;b=42687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fnnrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcgldsyjdsg_lkjmjjgkgrmngkjmhzhh.html?a%3D%26b%3D42687&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632605749283000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHGCGZsonFSYpMHMkWzzoaowWE17Q\">the Port shared in a statement on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe Port of Houston Authority (Port Houston) successfully defended itself against a cybersecurity attack in August,\u201d the statement reads. \u201cPort Houston followed its Facilities Security Plan in doing so, as guided under the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA), and no operational data or systems were impacted as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The attempted hack involved a password management program called ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/olwmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntzqwtzm_lkjmjjgkgrmngkjmhzhh.html?a=&amp;b=42687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/olwmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntzqwtzm_lkjmjjgkgrmngkjmhzhh.html?a%3D%26b%3D42687&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632605749283000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFfAWR5jR43AW22i7htIomLYmxK2A\">according to The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hwsmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqfcvqf_lkjmjjgkgrmngkjmhzhh.html?a=&amp;b=42687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hwsmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqfcvqf_lkjmjjgkgrmngkjmhzhh.html?a%3D%26b%3D42687&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632605749283000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF-auwYF2gSuwSGuK9WzOfpyB3yig\">In a joint statement last week,<\/a>\u00a0the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency along with the FBI and the U.S. Coast Guard said that the vulnerability in the software creates a serious threat to critical infrastructure companies, defense contractors, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Houston, a major&#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":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40430","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=40430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40431,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40430\/revisions\/40431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}