Earlier this week, Minnesota witnessed what might be the most terrifying digital assault on an American city to date. The entire city of St. Paul went offline. No Wi-Fi. No servers. No internal infrastructure. A full blackout.<\/p>\n
And now the National Guard is involved.<\/p>\n
Governor Tim Walz officially declared a state of emergency and signed an executive order activating the Minnesota National Guard\u2019s cyber protection unit. Their mission? To determine what data \u2014 if any \u2014 was accessed, stolen, or compromised.<\/p>\n
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter issued a chilling statement:\u00a0\u201cThis was not a glitch. It was a deliberate, coordinated attack carried out by an external actor intentionally and criminally targeting our systems.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n That means this wasn\u2019t some random outage. Someone took down a U.S. city\u2019s digital backbone\u2026 and almost nobody is reporting on it.<\/p>\n What\u2019s even more alarming is the silence. There\u2019s no media frenzy. No national panic. Just a handful of official statements and local reports. Meanwhile, an entire American city\u2019s data might be in foreign hands.<\/p>\n Is this just the beginning? Was this a test run for something much larger? The National Guard has boots on the ground \u2014 not for a hurricane or riot \u2014 but for a war in cyberspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earlier this week, Minnesota witnessed what might be the most terrifying digital assault on an American city to date. The entire city of St. Paul went offline. No Wi-Fi. No servers. No internal infrastructure. A full blackout. And now the National Guard is involved. Governor Tim Walz officially declared a state of emergency and signed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7759,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions\/7759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}