{"id":6373,"date":"2019-10-23T15:38:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T19:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/?p=6373"},"modified":"2019-10-24T17:35:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T21:35:11","slug":"nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/2019\/10\/23\/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"NordVPN confirms it was hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2018 one of NoedVPN&#8217;s data centers in Finland was &#8220;accessed with no authorization,\u201d said NordVPN spokesperson Laura Tyrell. The attacker gained access to the server, which had been active for about a month.\u00a0 They exploited an insecure remote management system left by the data center provider; NordVPN said it was unaware that such a system existed.\u00a0 This is such a breakdown of physical security and poor patch management. IT is also disturbing that they are reporting in October 2019 for an incident in march.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"wGXfo4qZrP\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/10\/21\/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked\/\">NordVPN confirms it was hacked<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;NordVPN confirms it was hacked&#8221; &#8212; TechCrunch\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/10\/21\/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked\/embed\/#?secret=eS3NK3nYZ9#?secret=wGXfo4qZrP\" data-secret=\"wGXfo4qZrP\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2018 one of NoedVPN&#8217;s data centers in Finland was &#8220;accessed with no authorization,\u201d said NordVPN spokesperson Laura Tyrell. The attacker gained access to the server, which had been active for about a month.\u00a0 They exploited an insecure remote management system left by the data center provider; NordVPN said it was unaware that such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22916,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[805801],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-08-social-engineering-encoding-and-encryption","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22916"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6377,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions\/6377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}