{"id":47430,"date":"2022-04-18T15:46:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T22:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47430"},"modified":"2022-04-18T17:46:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T00:46:57","slug":"us-officials-ramp-up-cyber-threat-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47430","title":{"rendered":"US officials ramp up cyber threat warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top U.S. officials are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27411112.1117\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvY3liZXJzZWN1cml0eS8zMjcxODk4LXVzLW9mZmljaWFscy1yYW1wLXVwLXdhcm5pbmdzLWFib3V0LXJ1c3NpYW4tY3liZXItYXR0YWNrcy8_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5Yjg\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB15650fea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27411112.1117\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvY3liZXJzZWN1cml0eS8zMjcxODk4LXVzLW9mZmljaWFscy1yYW1wLXVwLXdhcm5pbmdzLWFib3V0LXJ1c3NpYW4tY3liZXItYXR0YWNrcy8_ZW1haWw9YjBiZWZiMmRhZmNlM2E4N2U3ZjEzNmJiMDY1NGRmMDUzZjg0NTNhYyZlbWFpbGE9MWEyNzU3ZTM1ODAwMWJhMjYzMThiMDJiODZmNDEzMTEmZW1haWxiPWMxYjU4OTFlYzgyZGUwOWRiY2Y5NzNhZDQ5NTQ2MDMyZWNlNzk1MGZiM2E3ZTdjYTg2ZGQ5Y2ZjY2FiZTY5Yjg\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB15650fea&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1650413879896000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2WFRSc8rXAgqHap7wtNFnv\">ramping up<\/a>\u00a0their warnings about possible Russian cyberattacks on critical infrastructure as the war in Ukraine escalates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with \u201c60 Minutes\u201d on CBS, Deputy Attorney General\u00a0<strong>Lisa Monaco\u00a0<\/strong>and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director\u00a0Jen Easterly<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>discussed the threats they\u2019re seeing and the various ways their respective agencies are preparing for potential Russian cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing Russian state actors scanning, probing, looking for opportunities, looking for weaknesses in our systems on critical infrastructure, on businesses,\u201d Monaco told Bill Whitaker of \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Easterly, who was also featured in the segment, said her agency is seeing \u201cevolving intelligence\u201d indicating the Russians are planning for possible cyberattacks and critical infrastructure should assume there is going to be a breach and prepare accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top U.S. officials are\u00a0ramping up\u00a0their warnings&#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":[12,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47430","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=47430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47431,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47430\/revisions\/47431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}