{"id":2421,"date":"2010-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/03\/windows-2000-pcs-being-targeted-by-hackers\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:41:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:41:18","slug":"windows-2000-pcs-being-targeted-by-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/03\/windows-2000-pcs-being-targeted-by-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 2000 PCs being targeted by hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online criminals are scanning the internet and attacking Windows 2000 machines that haven&#8217;t had a recent Windows Media Service patch installed, according to Symantec.  Symantec first spotted the attacks on Monday, saying that they are extremely limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symantec&#8217;s detection network picked up just a handful of attempts, but the code used in the attacks is new and gives hackers a way to take over a system.<\/p>\n<p>The Metasploit open-source hacking toolkit has published code that exploits the flaw, but whoever is behind these attacks isn&#8217;t using that software, Symantec Security Intelligence Manager Joshua Talbot, said.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.pcadvisor.co.uk\/news\/index.cfm?RSS&#038;NewsID=3225545<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4908,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/4908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}