{"id":99174,"date":"2019-11-29T21:53:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T05:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/cowlitz-county-pud-among-u-s-utilities-targeted-in-cyberattacks"},"modified":"2019-11-29T21:53:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T05:53:49","slug":"cowlitz-county-pud-among-u-s-utilities-targeted-in-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/cowlitz-county-pud-among-u-s-utilities-targeted-in-cyberattacks","title":{"rendered":"Cowlitz County PUD among U.S. utilities targeted in cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cowlitz-county-pud-among-u-s-utilities-targeted-in-cyberattacks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Cowlitz County PUD is among more than a dozen utilities targeted in a recent cyberattack across the United States, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/utilities-targeted-in-cyberattacks-identified-11574611200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">an investigation by The Wall Street Journal<\/a> published this week.<\/p>\n<p>Cowlitz County PUD spokeswoman Alice Dietz confirmed Wednesday that the PUD\u2019s firewall successfully blocked the only infected email that hackers sent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re proud of our IT department,\u201d Dietz said. \u201cThey just continue to implement strong cybersecurity measures. This is a great example of why we take it so seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cowlitz County PUD is among more than a dozen utilities targeted in a recent cyberattack across the United States, according to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal published this week. Cowlitz County PUD spokeswoman Alice Dietz confirmed Wednesday that the PUD\u2019s firewall successfully blocked the only infected email that hackers sent. \u201cWe\u2019re proud [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99174","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}