{"id":89817,"date":"2025-07-30T06:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89817"},"modified":"2025-07-30T06:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T11:26:14","slug":"hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89817","title":{"rendered":"Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Somebody hacked the City of Saint Paul:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"St. Paul cyberattack prompts Gov. Tim Walz to activate Minnesota National Guard\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oBU52AByp7Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What is it about information technology that makes every level of Minnesota government so very very bad at it?<\/p>\n<p>It would seem Mayor Carter could have diverted some time from setting up college funds and yakking about Universal Basic Income to make sure the city&#8217;s patching was up to date and tell city employees to stop answering scam emails.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of bad ID, Governor Walz called out the 19 year old cooks:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Walz activates National Guard in response to cyberattack on St. Paul<br><br>&quot;We are the victims of a serious crime,&quot; said St. Paul Technology and Communications Director Jaime Wascalus. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OnacKVsBDh\">pic.twitter.com\/OnacKVsBDh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaNewsMN\/status\/1950274777869959488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the &#8220;Hummers patrolling the streets&#8221; National Guard.  The MN Guard <a href=\"https:\/\/ngmnpublic.azurewebsites.us\/minnesota-national-guard-seeks-applicants-for-cyber-protection-team\/\">actually has a cybersecurity unit<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, knowing what we know now&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/El_Fuego_Blanco\/status\/1950293730595840238\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>No, I mean knowing what <em>we have evidence of<\/em>, it&#8217;s not the dumbest idea.  If MN IT responded, the fix would cost more than building the Rondo Land Bridge.  And it&#8217;s a good, free training opportunity for a cyberwarfare unuit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll give it an 80, so far.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody hacked the City of Saint Paul: What is it about information technology that makes every level of Minnesota government so very very bad at it? It would seem Mayor Carter could have diverted some time from setting up college funds and yakking about Universal Basic Income to make sure the city&#8217;s patching was up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89818,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89817\/revisions\/89818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}