{"id":1393169,"date":"2022-03-22T07:29:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T11:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1393169"},"modified":"2022-03-22T07:30:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T11:30:25","slug":"white-house-warning-private-sector-to-be-vigilant-against-russian-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-warning-private-sector-to-be-vigilant-against-russian-cyberattacks\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Warning Private Sector to Be Vigilant Against Russian Cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-warning-private-sector-to-be-vigilant-against-russian-cyberattacks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1393169&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p>President Joe Biden is warning private companies and businesses to beef up their cybersecurity precautions amid growing concerns Russia may lash out at U.S. sanctions by hacking critical American infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Biden referred to previous warnings he had issued, describing the possible Russian response as part of Moscow&#8217;s &#8220;playbook.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;My administration is reiterating those warnings based on evolving intelligence that the Russian government is exploring options for potential cyberattacks,&#8221; he said Monday.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/biden-under-pressure-to-address-swiss-cheese-russia-sanctions\">BIDEN UNDER PRESSURE TO ADDRESS &#8216;SWISS CHEESE&#8217; RUSSIA SANCTIONS<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have the power, the capacity, and the responsibility to strengthen the cybersecurity and resilience of the critical services and technologies on which Americans rely,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We need everyone to do their part to meet one of the defining threats of our time \u2014 your vigilance and urgency today can prevent or mitigate attacks tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>White House deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology Anne Neuberger clarified Biden&#8217;s comments during Monday&#8217;s press briefing. She told reporters her team had reached out to entities and sectors that could be targeted, providing them with practical recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no evidence of any specific cyberattack that we&#8217;re anticipating for,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There was some preparatory activity that we&#8217;re seeing, and that is what we shared in a classified context.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the president has said, the United States is not seeking confrontation with Russia,&#8221; she added. &#8220;But he has also said that if Russia conducts disruptive cyberattacks against critical infrastructure, we will be prepared to respond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The administration&#8217;s recommendations include using multi-factor authentication, changing network passwords, backing up data offline, and encrypting it in case it is stolen.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has alleged Russia directed <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/u-s-pins-solarwinds-cyberattack-on-russian-intelligence-agency\">operatives to gain access to federal government information via software company\u00a0SolarWinds\u00a0and its Orion update<\/a>. Russia-based hackers were similarly suspected to be responsible for breaches of Colonial Pipeline&#8217;s and meatpacker JBS&#8217;s information systems last year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is warning private companies and businesses to beef up their cybersecurity precautions amid growing concerns Russia may lash out at U.S. sanctions by hacking critical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}