{"id":127,"date":"2014-02-20T23:07:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T23:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lapsedordinary.net\/?p=127"},"modified":"2014-02-20T23:07:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T23:07:41","slug":"windows-error-reporting-used-to-discover-new-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/2014\/02\/20\/windows-error-reporting-used-to-discover-new-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Error Reporting used to discover new attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security firm <i>Websense<\/i> published a report that explains how they can use error reports generated by <i>Windows<\/i> to discover new targeted attacks (&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advanced_persistent_threat\">APTs<\/a>&#8216; in security hipster speak). It&#8217;s interesting, but it barely touches on the fact that these reports being sent in cleartext is also a serious problem. I wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virusbtn.com\/blog\/2014\/02_19.xml\">blog<\/a> on both sides of this issue for <i>Virus Bulletin<\/i>.<br \/>\n(I&#8217;m not sure if anyone is reading my musings here, but I thought it might be a nice idea to link to things I write elsewhere. I also hope to find inspiration to write the odd thing that has nothing to do with computers or security at all.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security firm Websense published a report that explains how they can use error reports generated by Windows to discover new targeted attacks (&#8216;APTs&#8216; in security hipster speak). It&#8217;s interesting, but it barely touches on the fact that these reports being sent in cleartext is also a serious problem. I wrote a blog on both sides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,155,158,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lapsed.ordinary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}