{"id":613,"date":"2014-01-14T15:40:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T15:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keenertech.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2014-01-14T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T15:40:16","slug":"about-the-target-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"About the Target Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who might be interested in what really happened during the recent Target retail attack, where information about 40 million credit cards was stolen (including mine), here\u2019s a really interesting article from Security Week: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/target-confirms-point-sale-malware-was-used-attack\">http:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/target-confirms-point-sale-malware-was-used-attack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, the attackers used a RAM scraper to pull credit card information that was stored \u201cin the clear\u201d within memory. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, I was issued a new card because of this whole fiasco. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who might be interested in what really happened during the recent Target retail attack, where information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[188,211],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-security","tag-target"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}