{"id":30190,"date":"2016-09-14T21:18:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T04:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/cia-director-john-brennan-warns-of-russian-hacking"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:15:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:15:43","slug":"cia-director-john-brennan-warns-of-russian-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/cia-director-john-brennan-warns-of-russian-hacking","title":{"rendered":"CIA Director John Brennan warns of Russian hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cia-director-john-brennan-warns-of-russian-hacking.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, here is the real question we in the US should start raising is how does all of this look for the US to its allies, frienemies, etc. with US filling the headlines with statements like this one. No wonders allies and others are expanding their partnerships with Russia.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 CIA Director John Brennan warned on Sunday that Russia has \u201cexceptionally capable and sophisticated\u201d computer capabilities and that the U.S. must be on guard.<\/p>\n<p>When asked in a television interview whether Russia is trying to manipulate the American presidential election, Brennan didn\u2019t say. But he noted that the FBI is investigating the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails, and he cited Moscow\u2019s aggressive intelligence collection and its focus on high-tech snooping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that we have to be very, very wary of what the Russians might be trying to do in terms of collecting information in a cyber realm, as well as what they might want to do with it,\u201d he told CBS\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation\u201d on the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/science-tech\/cia-director-john-brennan-warns-of-russian-hacking\">http:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/science-tech\/cia-director-john-bren...an-hacking<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, here is the real question we in the US should start raising is how does all of this look for the US to its allies, frienemies, etc. with US filling the headlines with statements like this one. No wonders allies and others are expanding their partnerships with Russia. WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 CIA Director John [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30190","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=30190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66238,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30190\/revisions\/66238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}