{"id":23551,"date":"2016-03-15T14:32:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T21:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/schumer-iranian-cyber-attack-on-new-york-dam-was-shot-across-the-bow"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:06:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:06:05","slug":"schumer-iranian-cyber-attack-on-new-york-dam-was-shot-across-the-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/schumer-iranian-cyber-attack-on-new-york-dam-was-shot-across-the-bow","title":{"rendered":"Schumer: Iranian Cyber-Attack on New York Dam Was \u201cShot Across the Bow\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So does this mean war?<\/p>\n

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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D \u2013 N.Y.) said that an Iranian cyber-attack on a dam near New York City was a \u201cshot across the bow\u201d of the United States, which should be answered with harsher sanctions, the Associated Press reported<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow it looks clear that the Iranians did it,\u201d Schumer said during an appearance on Long Island. \u201cWhat were they doing? They were sending a shot across our bow. They were saying that we can damage, seriously damage, our critical infrastructure and put the lives and property of people at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

The breach in the dam\u2019s control system was first reported<\/a> in December of last year, and Schumer indicated that there would a federal indictment in the case as early as April. The congressman added that the breach suggested that Iranian hackers possibly posed even greater threats. \u201cHackers can come in, as these Iranian hackers did, and hurt our critical infrastructure,\u201d he observed. \u201cWhat if they open the sluice gates of a dam with a whole lot of people behind it? What if they shut off the power for a large part of the area?\u201d<\/p>\n

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So does this mean war? Sen. Chuck Schumer (D \u2013 N.Y.) said that an Iranian cyber-attack on a dam near New York City was a \u201cshot across the bow\u201d of the United States, which should be answered with harsher sanctions, the Associated Press reported on Friday. \u201cNow it looks clear that the Iranians did it,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68007,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551\/revisions\/68007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}