{"id":353,"date":"2009-05-15T14:18:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T18:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=353"},"modified":"2009-05-15T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T18:54:20","slug":"hackers-attack-facebook-gain-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/05\/15\/hackers-attack-facebook-gain-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers attack Facebook, gain passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a title=\"feared phishing attack\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSTRE54D6BN20090514\" target=\"_blank\">feared phishing attack <\/a>on Facebook enabled hackers to gain passwords from some of the estimated 200 million users and send e-mails to &#8220;friends&#8221; urging them to\u00a0click on links to fake\u00a0websites. The site fought off a similar attack two weeks ago.\u00a0 <a title=\"Azer Bestavros\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/~best\/\" target=\"_blank\">Azer Bestavros<\/a>, professor of computer science is familiar with many of the security issues Facebook must deal with.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Azer Bestavros, 617-353-9726, <a href=\"mailto:best@bu.edu\">best@bu.edu<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A feared phishing attack on Facebook enabled hackers to gain passwords from some of the estimated 200 million users and send e-mails to &#8220;friends&#8221; urging them to\u00a0click on links to fake\u00a0websites. The site fought off a similar attack two weeks ago.\u00a0 Azer Bestavros, professor of computer science is familiar with many of the security issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}