{"id":16775,"date":"2017-05-13T14:15:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T19:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16775"},"modified":"2017-05-13T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T19:15:53","slug":"leaked-nsa-malware-is-helping-hijack-computers-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16775","title":{"rendered":"Leaked NSA Malware Is Helping Hijack Computers Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The U.S. software weapon would have allowed the spy agency\u2019s hackers to break into potentially millions of Windows computers by exploiting a <a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/security\/ms17-010.aspx\">flaw<\/a> in how certain versions of Windows implemented a network protocol commonly used to share files and to print.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/05\/12\/the-nsas-lost-digital-weapon-is-helping-hijack-computers-around-the-world\/\">Leaked NSA Malware Is Helping Hijack Computers Around the World<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>From:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/security\/ms17-010.aspx\">Security Update for Microsoft Windows SMB Server (4013389)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Microsoft Edge. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. software weapon would have allowed the spy agency\u2019s hackers to break into potentially millions of Windows computers by exploiting a flaw in how certain versions of Windows implemented a network protocol commonly used to share files and to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16775\">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":[110],"tags":[347,1149,199,815],"class_list":["post-16775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-malware","tag-nsa","tag-samba","tag-windows-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16775","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=16775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16776,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16775\/revisions\/16776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}