{"id":10348,"date":"2013-06-07T00:25:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T05:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10348"},"modified":"2013-06-07T01:30:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T06:30:57","slug":"microsoft-fbi-takedown-citadel-botnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10348","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft, FBI takedown Citadel botnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>According to Microsoft pirated Windows XP product keys were used to spread the Citadel malware. Redmond isn\u2019t claiming a full take down because of the sheer size of the botnet but, it is optimistic that the seized equipment will help it to strengthen defenses in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/paritynews.com\/security\/item\/1103-microsoft-fbi-takedown-citadel-botnet\">Microsoft, FBI takedown Citadel botnet &#8211; ParityNews.com: &#8230;Because Technology Matters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prior to take down of Citadel, Microsoft has been a key player in take down of other botnets like Bamital, Kehlios and <a href=\"http:\/\/paritynews.com\/security\/item\/309-microsoft-disrupts-nitol-botnet\" target=\"_blank\">Nitol botnet<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Microsoft pirated Windows XP product keys were used to spread the Citadel malware. Redmond isn\u2019t claiming a full take down because of the sheer size of the botnet but, it is optimistic that the seized equipment will help &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10348\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[677,347,50],"class_list":["post-10348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-bots","tag-malware","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10351,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions\/10351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}