{"id":142,"date":"2009-11-02T13:48:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T20:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2009-11-02T13:48:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T20:48:45","slug":"walmart-servers-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Walmart servers hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2009\/10\/walmart-hack\/\">a story<\/a> about a hacker breaking into Walmart&#8217;s point of sales computer.  Amazingly Walmart claims that the attacker didn&#8217;t get any costumer&#8217;s personal information or credit cards. While I&#8217;m a bit dubious of their ability to know this, I did find the description of how the attacker got in to be interesting. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nInvestigators found that the tool had been installed remotely by someone using a generic network administrator account. The intruder had reached the machine through a VPN account assigned to a former Wal-Mart worker in Canada, which administrators had failed to close after the worker left the company.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has a story about a hacker breaking into Walmart&#8217;s point of sales computer. Amazingly Walmart claims that the attacker didn&#8217;t get any costumer&#8217;s personal information or credit cards. While I&#8217;m a bit dubious of their ability to know this, I did find the description of how the attacker got in to be interesting. Investigators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,17,25],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-access-control","tag-authentication","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2u4LH-2i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}