{"id":343,"date":"2005-04-20T11:09:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T15:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=343"},"modified":"2005-04-20T11:09:54","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T15:09:54","slug":"and-now-theyre-ruining-it-for-bloggers-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"And now they&#8217;re ruining it for bloggers, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new weapon of choice for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiphishing.org\/\">phishing<\/a> gangs appears to be <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/4441333.stm\">the establishment of fake blogs:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Websense said it had seen examples of some computer criminals creating a legitimate looking weblog, loading it with keylogging software or viral code, and then sending out the address of it through instant messenger or spam e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These aren&#8217;t the kind of blog websites that someone would stumble upon and infect their machine accidentally,&#8221; said Dan Hubbard, Websense&#8217;s research director. &#8220;The success of these attacks relies upon a certain level of social engineering to persuade the individual to click on the link.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just great.  So now, just as every netizen has to be suspicious about their e-mail, they must now be skeptical about any new blogs they come across.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new weapon of choice for phishing gangs: fake blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}