{"id":688,"date":"2008-06-20T11:08:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T10:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/688-microsoft-msvps-blog-site-taken-over-by-malware.html"},"modified":"2008-06-20T11:08:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T10:08:58","slug":"microsoft-msvps-blog-site-taken-over-by-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/688-microsoft-msvps-blog-site-taken-over-by-malware.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft MSMVPs blog site taken over by malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Bradley is blogging about a break-in on the <a href=\"http:\/\/msmvps.com\">server that runs numerous blogs<\/a> for Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals).<\/p>\n<p>She describes <a href=\"http:\/\/msmvps.com\/blogs\/bradley\/archive\/2008\/06\/16\/houston-we-have-a-problem.aspx\">spotting a service<\/a> that turned out to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/security\/analyses\/viruses-and-spyware\/w32rbotgos.html\">W32\/Rbot-GOS<\/a> work with IRC backdoor functionality.<\/p>\n<p>Currently she <a href=\"http:\/\/msmvps.com\/blogs\/bradley\/archive\/2008\/06\/19\/so-what-happened.aspx\">doesn\u2019t know how it happened<\/a>, but promises to let us know; it\u2019s also being investigated by Microsoft support.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to Bradley for being open about this. It\u2019s embarrassing for someone with deep expertise who blogs about security; on the other hand it demonstrates what a tough problem this is. I\u2019ll be watching with interest for the further analysis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:b08a0021-6635-439e-8ad4-3abe5ca17a67\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/security\" rel=\"tag\">security<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/susan+bradley\" rel=\"tag\">susan bradley<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/msmvps.com\" rel=\"tag\">msmvps.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Bradley is blogging about a break-in on the server that runs numerous blogs for Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals). She describes spotting a service that turned out to be the W32\/Rbot-GOS work with IRC backdoor functionality. Currently she doesn\u2019t know how it happened, but promises to let us know; it\u2019s also being investigated by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/688-microsoft-msvps-blog-site-taken-over-by-malware.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft MSMVPs blog site taken over by malware<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,75,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-security","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}