{"id":25464,"date":"2023-05-08T15:35:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T19:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=25464"},"modified":"2023-05-08T15:35:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T19:35:04","slug":"danny-tang-comments-on-upstate-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/danny-tang-comments-on-upstate-cyberattacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Tang comments on Upstate cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organizations in the Upstate have recently fallen victim to ransomware attacks. Following the latest cyberattack perpetrated against a local megachurch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/church-south-carolina-ransomware-attacks-victim\/43807002\">WYFF News 4<\/a> turned to Furman University&#8217;s Danny Tang for comment. The university&#8217;s associate vice president for technology and chief information officer said, \u201cIn the event of a breach, it can be very catastrophic for an organization. People think these attacks happen from some guy in the basement with a screen of code coming down typing away, penetrating some technology with their technical expertise. That\u2019s usually not how this happens. It happens through an email that comes from a malicious actor pretending to be someone that the recipient trusts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local news station WYFF News 4 speaks to Furman&#8217;s Danny Tang about recent ransomware attacks in the Upstate. The latest targeted Relentless Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":25468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6,120],"tags":[2077,736,2078,2076],"class_list":["post-25464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-in-the-news","category-wyff-tv","tag-cyberattacks","tag-cybersecurity","tag-information-technology","tag-ransomware"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}