{"id":23563,"date":"2022-06-02T09:26:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T13:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=23563"},"modified":"2022-06-03T11:47:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:47:02","slug":"white-house-claims-cyber-activities-not-against-russia-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/white-house-claims-cyber-activities-not-against-russia-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Claims Cyber Activities Not Against Russia Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"arIndex_1\" data-ar-index=\"1\">The White House made clear Wednesday that any offensive cyber activity against Russia will not violate U.S. policy to avoid a direct military conflict with Russia over the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_2\" data-ar-index=\"2\">The clarification came from White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in response to a statement from the U.S. cyber command chief General Paul Nakasone.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_3\" data-ar-index=\"3\">Nakasone told Sky News on Wednesday that the United States had conducted a series of operations in Ukraine in the midst of the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_4\" data-ar-index=\"4\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve conducted a series of operations across the full spectrum: offensive, defensive, (and) information operations,&#8221; Nakasone said in an interview with Sky News.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_5\" data-ar-index=\"5\">Although he did not elaborate on the nature of the operation, Nakasone said the activities were lawful and under civilian oversight.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_6\" data-ar-index=\"6\">Since the invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has been wary of cyberattacks from Russia. Part of the cyber command&#8217;s mission is to thwart hacking activities against the U.S.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_7\" data-ar-index=\"7\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/white-house-cyber-activity-not-against-russia-policy-2022-06-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House made clear Wednesday that any offensive cyber activity against Russia will not violate U.S. policy to avoid a direct military conflict with Russia over the invasion of Ukraine. The clarification came from White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in response to a statement from the U.S. cyber command chief General Paul Nakasone. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,421,16],"tags":[393],"class_list":["post-23563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-governance","category-security","tag-security-strategies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23566,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23563\/revisions\/23566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}