{"id":17449,"date":"2025-01-25T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T07:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/could-irelands-longheld-neutrality-make-it-vulnerable-to-infrastructure-attacks\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T08:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T07:37:27","slug":"could-irelands-longheld-neutrality-make-it-vulnerable-to-infrastructure-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/could-irelands-longheld-neutrality-make-it-vulnerable-to-infrastructure-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Ireland\u2019s longheld neutrality make it vulnerable to infrastructure attacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transatlantic subsea cables serving Europe and the UK go to or near its shores \u2013 but some say recent suspected sabotage means Ireland must be able to defend itself<\/p>\n<p>They are the bedrock of the internet, keeping everything from TikTok to emergency services, business, banking systems and political and military communications running smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>But deep under the sea, the network of cables around British and Irish shores are being considered as increasingly attractive targets for military, terrorist or criminal actors after several incidents in the Baltics where internet cables were severed and internet communications were disrupted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/25\/could-ireland-longheld-neutrality-make-it-vulnerable-to-infrastructure-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b57b8014f6c46515f25bc6b50f54afa5d2db30ff\/0_300_4000_2401\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f180dff97cb424a2638706eb443f7b6e\" title=\"Could Ireland\u2019s longheld neutrality make it vulnerable to infrastructure attacks?\" \/>Transatlantic subsea cables serving Europe and the UK go to or near its shores \u2013 but some say recent suspected sabotage means Ireland must be able to defend itself<br \/>\nThey are the bedrock of the internet, keeping everything from TikTok to emergency services, business, banking systems and political and military communications running smoothly.<br \/>\nBut deep under the sea, the network of cables around British and Irish shores are being considered as increasingly attractive targets for military, terrorist or criminal actors after several incidents in the Baltics where internet cables were severed and internet communications were disrupted. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transatlantic subsea cables serving Europe and the UK go to or near its shores \u2013 but some say recent suspected sabotage means Ireland must be able to defend itself They are the bedrock of the internet, keeping everything from TikTok to emergency services, business, banking systems and political and military communications running smoothly. But deep &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/could-irelands-longheld-neutrality-make-it-vulnerable-to-infrastructure-attacks\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Could Ireland\u2019s longheld neutrality make it vulnerable to infrastructure attacks?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}