{"id":443,"date":"2013-12-09T10:44:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2013-12-09T10:51:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:51:54","slug":"profs-hack-challenge-revealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2013\/12\/09\/profs-hack-challenge-revealing\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof&#8217;s Hack Challenge Revealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PC World summarized the results of a New York University Professor&#8217;s challenge to conduct a personal \u201cpen test\u201d on him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And the answer, at least in his case, is that knowing that they were out to get him didn\u2019t stop them. He got hacked. As he wrote, in an account of the project last month, while conducting a class at NYU, \u201cwithout warning, my computer freezes. \u2026&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This article may be viewed at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2070671\/anatomy-of-a-hack-team-meets-a-professors-challenge.html\" title=\"Article\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2070671\/anatomy-of-a-hack-team-meets-a-professors-challenge.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular note was that social engineering was key to the attack, &#8220;hacking someone&#8217;s head&#8221; versus clever tech. A phish email was used. As has been recommended many times, beware of emails with links to view something, although prima facie the message appears authentic, from someone you know. Check that link first!<\/p>\n<p>The article concluded with some general advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC World summarized the results of a New York University Professor&#8217;s challenge to conduct a personal \u201cpen test\u201d on him. And the answer, at least in his case, is that knowing that they were out to get him didn\u2019t stop them. He got hacked. As he wrote, in an account of the project last month, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[34,23,33],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-news","tag-hacks","tag-phishing","tag-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}