{"id":22919,"date":"2016-02-29T16:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T00:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/is-hacks-uk-solar-firm-site-in-revenge"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:08:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:08:27","slug":"is-hacks-uk-solar-firm-site-in-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/is-hacks-uk-solar-firm-site-in-revenge","title":{"rendered":"IS hacks UK solar firm site in revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-hacks-uk-solar-firm-site-in-revenge2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I always caution folks to never say \u201cnever\u201d especially around hacking and worst case scenarios relating to security. Granted there is a balance around not going too overboard. However, when it comes to being risk adverse and determining how much risk your company can absorb must be a core piece of your assessment. And, an attack like the one by ISIS in this article can not be allowed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/b-_mdNW\">https:\/\/lnkd.in\/b-_mdNW<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>LONDON: ISIS terrorists hacked the website of a UK-based solar firm as revenge for the killing of one of their British Muslim members, a media report said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Self-styled Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA) members recently carried out the hack on the website of Solar UK, an East Sussex company in south-east England with only 11 staff, The Sunday Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was reportedly to avenge the death of Junaid Hussain, an ISIS figure from Birmingham, and it saw customers being diverted to a web page featuring the terror group\u2019s logo accompanied by a string of threats.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/uk\/IS-hacks-UK-solar-firm-site-in-revenge\/articleshow\/51179547.cms\">http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/uk\/IS-hacks-UK-sola...179547.cms<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always caution folks to never say \u201cnever\u201d especially around hacking and worst case scenarios relating to security. Granted there is a balance around not going too overboard. However, when it comes to being risk adverse and determining how much risk your company can absorb must be a core piece of your assessment. And, an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68200,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22919\/revisions\/68200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}