{"id":40,"date":"2004-06-26T14:39:45","date_gmt":"2004-06-26T18:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=40"},"modified":"2004-06-26T15:10:13","modified_gmt":"2004-06-26T19:10:13","slug":"latest-vulnerability-found-and-dismantled-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Latest vulnerability found and dismantled&#8230; for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The source of one of the latest Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities was found and disabled as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/06\/26\/BUGND7CI841.DTL\">Russian web server was located and shut down<\/a>.  The server carried a payload of trojan horse software that was being downloaded by computers infected with some malware <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?p=37\">I had mentioned here earlier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The offending server&#8217;s shutdown was only seen as a temorary fix though.  Microsoft has yet to release a patch for one of the exploits used in this latest attack, so until that patch is developed, it&#8217;s only a matter of time before someone else exploits this bug and directs it to do their bidding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The source of one of the latest vulnerabilities was found and disabled as a russian web server was shut down.<\/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-40","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\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}