{"id":3130,"date":"2017-02-01T12:39:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T17:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2017-02-04T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T16:07:56","slug":"ransomware-hijacks-hotel-smart-keys-to-lock-guests-out-of-their-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/2017\/02\/01\/ransomware-hijacks-hotel-smart-keys-to-lock-guests-out-of-their-rooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Hijacks Hotel Smart Keys to Lock Guests Out of their Rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Link to Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2017\/01\/ransomware-hotel-smart-lock.html\">Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Australian Hotel was hacked and their electronic key card system was compromised. \u00a0The hotel admitted to paying $1,600 US in bitcoins to unlock doors. \u00a0The hackers gained access to the system and locked guests out of their rooms.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel admits that is has a very robust IT system and this is not the first hacking attempt. \u00a0 Beyond access to the keycard system, the hackers gained access to the general computing systems in the hotel, shutting down several hotel computers.<\/p>\n<p>After the ransom was paid, the system was returned to normal, but the hotel did find a backdoor that was left by the hackers, allowing the hackers access back into the system. \u00a0 Fortunately the backdoor was found and measure were taken to prevent this from happening in the future.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s scary to think what hackers can do and what they will attack. \u00a0 We look at technology as a way of making our lives easier, but hackers view them as an opportunity to make money. \u00a0 \u00a0Needless to say, nothing is safe in this digital world today!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to Article: Click Here An Australian Hotel was hacked and their electronic key card system was compromised. \u00a0The hotel admitted to paying $1,600 US in bitcoins to unlock doors. \u00a0The hackers gained access to the system and locked guests out of their rooms. The hotel admits that is has a very robust IT system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12789,"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":"","_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":""},"categories":[714826],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-02-its-role-the-control-environment","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8j0Bl-Ou","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}