{"id":1228,"date":"2019-10-28T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech2.mountdesales.net\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2021-09-01T13:45:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T17:45:23","slug":"something-scary-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"Something Scary, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Halloween is coming, so here&#8217;s something really scary &#8211; a live map showing you Top DDoS attacks happening across the planet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DDoS = Distributed Denial of Service. 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DDoS = Distributed Denial of Service. The &#8220;bad guys&#8221; collect a whole slew of computers and processors that they have wrangled control of, and command them all to try and get information from a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?p=1228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Something Scary, part 1<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[30,26,13],"tags":[456,457,267,455,429],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more","category-network","category-websites","tag-ddos","tag-hack","tag-internet","tag-scary","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42ogX-jO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1237,"url":"https:\/\/tech.mountdesales.net\/?p=1237","url_meta":{"origin":1228,"position":0},"title":"Something Scary, pt 3.","author":"Tom Rule","date":"10\/30\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A live Cyber Threat map that lists when and where Malware, Phishing, and Exploit attacks are occurring. 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