{"id":1653,"date":"2003-08-25T18:07:28","date_gmt":"2003-08-26T08:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/26\/sobig-virus-source-found\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:52:12","slug":"sobig-virus-source-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/25\/sobig-virus-source-found\/","title":{"rendered":"SoBig virus source found"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13664,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/observer.guardian.co.uk\\\/international\\\/story\\\/0,6903,1028455,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/observer.theguardian.com\\\/international\\\/story\\\/0,6903,1028455,00.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Security teams have <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,6903,1028455,00.html\" title=\"Virus writer used porn site to flood internet\">tracked down the original source<\/a> for the recent SoBig F virus &#8212; however, the author is still unknown.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  FBI investigators have now tracked down the source of the virus, known as SoBig F, to a porn website in Phoenix, Arizona. It was put on the net in the guise of a photograph posted in an adult &#8216;newsgroup&#8217;, a forum where users post messages and pictures. When people clicked to download the picture their computers unwittingly became infected and spread the virus which emailed copies of itself from their accounts.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security teams have tracked down the original source for the recent SoBig F virus &mdash; however, the author is still unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}