{"id":11812,"date":"2023-09-28T12:05:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T12:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11812"},"modified":"2023-09-28T12:05:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T12:05:52","slug":"americas-potential-achilles-heel-in-a-cyber-battle-with-china-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11812","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s potential Achilles\u2019 heel in a cyber battle with China: Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Chinese hackers have found a dangerous vulnerability in U.S. military computer networks nearly 8,000 miles from the Pentagon \u2014 on the serene South Pacific island of Guam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They attacked essential infrastructure in the military outpost in May, infiltrating networks in the U.S. territory closest to China. Lawmakers and federal officials fear these attacks, which used a new method that allows intruders to linger undetected, could threaten security in the volatile region and sabotage any U.S. response to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Officials in Guam welcome the help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to not just cyber, but our critical infrastructure as a whole, it\u2019s important to realize that we are isolated,\u201d Scott said. \u201cWe have proximity to the pacing threats, and we don\u2019t have a lot of the resources on our own to self-sustain.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/09\/16\/potential-cyber-threat-guam-00116354\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/09\/16\/potential-cyber-threat-guam-00116354<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Chinese hackers have found a dangerous vulnerability in U.S. military computer networks nearly 8,000 miles from the Pentagon \u2014 on the serene South Pacific island of Guam.<br \/>\nThey attacked essential infrastructure in the military outpost in May, infiltrating networks in the U.S. territory closest to China. Lawmakers and federal officials fear these attacks, which used a new method that allows intruders to linger undetected, could threaten security in the volatile region and sabotage any U.S. response to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officials in Guam welcome the help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to not just cyber, but our critical infrastructure as a whole, it\u2019s important to realize that we are isolated,\u201d Scott said. \u201cWe have proximity to the pacing threats, and we don\u2019t have a lot of the resources on our own to self-sustain.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/09\/16\/potential-cyber-threat-guam-00116354<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,89,412,272,355,1278,456,457,314,619],"class_list":["post-11812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-china","tag-cyber","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-guam","tag-hacking","tag-hacks","tag-international-relations","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11813,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812\/revisions\/11813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}