{"id":15060,"date":"2015-04-10T15:26:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T20:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15060"},"modified":"2015-04-10T15:26:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T20:26:32","slug":"dont-be-fodder-for-chinas-great-cannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15060","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Be Fodder for China\u2019s \u2018Great Cannon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIt only intercepts traffic to a certain set of Internet addresses, and then only looks for specific script requests. About 98 percent of the time it sends the Web request straight on to Baidu, but about two percent of the time it says, \u2018Okay, I\u2019m going to drop the request going to Baidu,\u2019 and instead it directly provides the malicious reply, replying with a bit of Javascript which causes the user\u2019s browser to participate in a DOS attack, Weaver said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2015\/04\/dont-be-fodder-for-chinas-great-cannon\/\">Don\u2019t Be Fodder for China\u2019s \u2018Great Cannon\u2019 \u2014 Krebs on Security<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Interestingly, this type of attack is not unprecedented. According to documents leaked by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, the NSA and British intelligence services used a system dubbed \u201cQUANTUM\u201d to <a title=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/10\/how_the_nsa_att.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/10\/how_the_nsa_att.html\" target=\"_blank\">inject content<\/a> and modify Web results for individual targets that appeared to be coming from a pre-selected range of Internet addresses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt only intercepts traffic to a certain set of Internet addresses, and then only looks for specific script requests. About 98 percent of the time it sends the Web request straight on to Baidu, but about two percent of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15060\">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":[835,277,733,380],"class_list":["post-15060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-baidu","tag-china","tag-cyberwar","tag-ddos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060","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=15060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15061,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15060\/revisions\/15061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}