{"id":77370,"date":"2026-08-13T14:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/donald-trump-empowers-us-private-companies-to-conduct-cyber-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:55:24","slug":"donald-trump-empowers-us-private-companies-to-conduct-cyber-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/donald-trump-empowers-us-private-companies-to-conduct-cyber-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump empowers US private companies to conduct cyber-attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President signed memorandum giving private sector a role in fighting \u2018transnational criminal organizations\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> signed a memo on Wednesday that aims to give private companies the power to carry out offensive cyber-attacks against foreign criminal entities.<\/p>\n<p>The president \u2060signed a \u200bnational security presidential memorandum directing his administration to \u201cleverage the capability and innovation of the private sector to help conduct these \u2060cyber operations under the direction, control and authority of the US government\u201d, the White House said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/13\/donald-trump-private-companies-cyber-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President signed memorandum giving private sector a role in fighting \u2018transnational criminal organizations\u2019 Donald Trump signed a memo on Wednesday that aims to give private companies the power to carry out offensive cyber-attacks against foreign criminal entities. The president \u2060signed a \u200bnational security presidential memorandum directing his administration to \u201cleverage the capability and innovation of &#8230; <a title=\"Donald Trump empowers US private companies to conduct cyber-attacks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/donald-trump-empowers-us-private-companies-to-conduct-cyber-attacks\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Donald Trump empowers US private companies to conduct cyber-attacks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}