{"id":638778,"date":"2024-09-19T04:02:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T01:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/craig-newmark-pledges-100m-to-fight-hacking-by-foreign-governments\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T04:02:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T01:02:17","slug":"craig-newmark-pledges-100m-to-fight-hacking-by-foreign-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/craig-newmark-pledges-100m-to-fight-hacking-by-foreign-governments\/","title":{"rendered":"#Craig Newmark pledges $100M to fight hacking by foreign governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Craigslist founder Craig Newmark plans to donate $100 million to further strengthen U.S. cybersecurity, addressing what he sees as a growing threat from foreign governments, he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/cybersecurity\/craigslist-founder-pledges-100-million-to-boost-u-s-cybersecurity-5357f5ae\">tells the WSJ<\/a>. Half the funds will focus on protecting power grids and other infrastructure from cyberattacks; half will be earmarked to educate people about so-called cybersecurity hygiene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newmark, 71, has donated or pledged over $400 million since delving into philanthropy in 2015, with cybersecurity long at the top of his list of causes. (He told Fortune <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/02\/14\/craigslist-founder-craig-newmark-philanthropy-50-pigeon-ghostface-killah\/\">last year<\/a> that the threat to America from bad actors is now an \u201call-hands-on deck\u201d situation.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newmark, who is also focused on a free and independent press and, to a lesser extent, pigeon rescue, tells the Journal his giving is inspired by the Jewish principle of <em>tikkun olam<\/em>\u2014repairing the world\u2014which he learned from his Sunday school teachers. He separately told Fortune the plan is to give away all of his wealth in his lifetime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Half the funds will focus on protecting power grids and other infrastructure from cyberattacks; half will be earmarked to educate people about so-called cybersecurity hygiene.\u00a0 Newmark,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":638779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-18-at-6.03.48-PM.png?resize=1200,684","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[72287],"class_list":["post-638778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}