{"id":16963,"date":"2017-10-01T21:53:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T02:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16963"},"modified":"2017-10-01T21:53:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T02:53:34","slug":"the-equifax-hack-has-the-hallmarks-of-state-sponsored-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16963","title":{"rendered":"The Equifax Hack Has the Hallmarks of State-Sponsored Pros"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The average American had no reason to notice Apache&#8217;s post but it caught the attention of the global hacking community. Within 24 hours, the information was posted to FreeBuf.com, a Chinese security website, and showed up the same day in Metasploit, a popular free hacking tool. On March 10, hackers scanning the internet for computer systems vulnerable to the attack got a hit on an Equifax server in Atlanta, according to people familiar with the investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2017-09-29\/the-equifax-hack-has-all-the-hallmarks-of-state-sponsored-pros\">The Equifax Hack Has the Hallmarks of State-Sponsored Pros &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The massive breach occurred even though Equifax had invested millions in sophisticated security measures, ran a dedicated operations center and deployed a suite of expensive anti-intrusion software. The effectiveness of that armory appears to have been compromised by poor implementation and the departure of key personnel in recent years. But the company&#8217;s challenges may go still deeper. One U.S. government official said leads being pursued by investigators include the possibility that <strong>the hackers had help from someone inside the company<\/strong>. \u201cWe have no evidence of malicious inside activity,\u201d the Equifax spokesperson said.\u00a0\u201cWe understand that law enforcement has an ongoing investigation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average American had no reason to notice Apache&#8217;s post but it caught the attention of the global hacking community. Within 24 hours, the information was posted to FreeBuf.com, a Chinese security website, and showed up the same day in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16963\">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":[718,1421,1422,698],"class_list":["post-16963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-data-security","tag-equifax","tag-inside-job","tag-security-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16963","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=16963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16964,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16963\/revisions\/16964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}