{"id":24,"date":"2013-01-15T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T17:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xvudrive.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2013-01-16T17:06:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T17:06:48","slug":"red-october-update-yes-java-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xvudrive.com\/blog\/red-october-update-yes-java-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Red October update &#8211; yes, Java too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a moment that takes me back to superhero &#8220;crossover&#8221; comics when I was a kid, it looks like Red October, the five year long hack that&#8217;s infected government computers in the US, most of the EU countries, Russia, India, and dozens more, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2013\/01\/massive-espionage-malware-relied-on-java-exploit-to-infect-pcs\/\">relied on a little program called Java<\/a> to gain access to all these agencies.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good example of why we recommend disabling Java until you absolutely need it, and then disabling it again once you&#8217;re finished with it.  The recent Java remote execution exploit is not the first, nor is it likely to be the last, and until there is a dramatic overhaul of the service it should always be considered dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Although we believe Java to be secure for now, diligence is always required.  These exploits often surface after they have already used for weeks, months, and in this case 5 years.  This highlights the need to practice Safe Surfing every day with your XVU Drive so that you&#8217;re not another victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a moment that takes me back to superhero &#8220;crossover&#8221; comics when I was a kid, it looks like Red October, the five year long hack that&#8217;s infected government computers in the US, most of the EU countries, Russia, India, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xvudrive.com\/blog\/red-october-update-yes-java-too\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xvudrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xvudrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xvudrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xvudrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xvudrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xvudrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xvudrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xvudrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xvudrive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}