{"id":10607,"date":"2013-08-02T18:08:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10607"},"modified":"2013-08-02T18:08:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T23:08:10","slug":"web-ads-used-to-launch-online-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10607","title":{"rendered":"Web Ads Used to Launch Online Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It didn\u2019t take long for the victimized test server to begin struggling under the sudden load. In the first hour of the test, during which only $2 was spent on ads, more than 130,000 connections from browsers swamped the server. It wasn\u2019t much longer until the server began falling offline under the growing load.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/517751\/web-ads-used-to-launch-online-attacks\/\">Web Ads Used to Launch Online Attacks | MIT Technology Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It didn\u2019t take long for the victimized test server to begin struggling under the sudden load. In the first hour of the test, during which only $2 was spent on ads, more than 130,000 connections from browsers swamped the server. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10607\">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":[284],"tags":[137,677,1133,347],"class_list":["post-10607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-advertising","tag-bots","tag-javascript","tag-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607","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=10607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}