{"id":183106,"date":"2016-10-17T07:38:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T05:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=183106"},"modified":"2016-10-17T07:40:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T05:40:17","slug":"cia-preparing-for-possible-cyberattack-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/183106-cia-preparing-for-possible-cyberattack-on-russia.html","title":{"rendered":"CIA preparing for possible cyberattack on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/cia-prepping-possible-cyber-strike-against-russia-n666636\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NBC News reported<\/strong><\/a> that the United States is planning a possible cyberattack against Russia in retaliation for its interference in the American presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CIA has been asked to deliver options to the White House for a wide-ranging clandestine cyber operation designed to harass and embarrass the Kremlin leadership,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>US Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview that &#8220;we&#8217;re sending a message to Putin&#8221;, adding that the timing will ensure the greatest possible impact.<\/p>\n<p>The US government has accused Russia of conducting cyberattacks against American political organisations during the campaigns for the US presidential election, including the hacking of Democratic Party emails.<\/p>\n<p>The US intelligence community \u201cis confident that the Russian government directed the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organisations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It said the alleged hacked emails disclosed on WikiLeaks and other websites by the persona \u201cGuccifer 2.0\u201d were \u201cconsistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/181980-us-accuses-russia-of-political-cyber-attacks.html\">US accuses Russia of political cyberattacks<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is planning a possible cyberattack against Russia in retaliation for its interference in the American presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":159704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,1191,1759],"class_list":["post-183106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-cia","tag-cyber-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183112,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183106\/revisions\/183112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}