{"id":57333,"date":"2017-05-12T23:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T06:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/accidental-hero-finds-kill-switch-to-stop-spread-of-ransomware-cyber-attack"},"modified":"2017-05-12T23:02:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T06:02:28","slug":"accidental-hero-finds-kill-switch-to-stop-spread-of-ransomware-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/accidental-hero-finds-kill-switch-to-stop-spread-of-ransomware-cyber-attack","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Accidental hero\u2019 finds kill switch to stop spread of ransomware cyber-attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/accidental-hero-finds-kill-switch-to-stop-spread-of-ransomware-cyber-attack.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spread of malware curtailed by expert who simply registered a domain name for a few dollars, giving many across world time to protect against attack.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/may\/13\/accidental-hero-finds-kill-switch-to-stop-spread-of-ransomware-cyber-attack?CMP=share_btn_fb\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/may\/13\/accidenta...are_btn_fb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spread of malware curtailed by expert who simply registered a domain name for a few dollars, giving many across world time to protect against attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57333","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\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}