{"id":164,"date":"2011-03-23T09:47:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T13:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2011-03-23T09:47:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T13:47:23","slug":"rustock-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Rustock Takedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Krebs has done his usual excellent job outlining <a href=\"http:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2011\/03\/homegrown-rustock-botnet-fed-by-u-s-firms\/\">the Microsoft takedown of the Rustock botnet<\/a>. Because of the resiliency of the architecture, a combination of technical and legal maneuvers were employed to seize the control structure of the botnet and render the compromised clients ineffective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Krebs has done his usual excellent job outlining the Microsoft takedown of the Rustock botnet. Because of the resiliency of the architecture, a combination of technical and legal maneuvers were employed to seize the control structure of the botnet and render the compromised clients ineffective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}