{"id":57373,"date":"2017-05-14T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T21:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/nyu-accidentally-leaked-a-top-secret-code-breaking-supercomputer-to-the-entire-internet"},"modified":"2017-05-20T09:01:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:01:10","slug":"nyu-accidentally-leaked-a-top-secret-code-breaking-supercomputer-to-the-entire-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/nyu-accidentally-leaked-a-top-secret-code-breaking-supercomputer-to-the-entire-internet","title":{"rendered":"NYU Accidentally Leaked a Top-Secret Code-Breaking Supercomputer to The Entire Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nyu-accidentally-leaked-a-top-secret-code-breaking-supercomputer-to-the-entire-internet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Confidential details of a top-secret encryption-breaking supercomputer were left completely exposed on an unsecured computer server belonging to New York University (NYU), according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s not uncommon for even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/multiple-computer-viruses-have-been-discovered-in-this-german-nuclear-plant\">critical-level infrastructure<\/a> to suffer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-found-an-advanced-form-of-malware-that-s-been-hiding-for-at-least-5-years\">potentially catastrophic security breaches<\/a>, what makes this event different is that there was seemingly no foul-play or attempts to hack into NYU\u2019s systems.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it looks like somebody may have just forgotten to secure their classified data properly, exposing hundreds of pages of information on a covert code-breaking machine co-administered by the Department of Defence, IBM, and NYU.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/details-of-a-top-secret-encryption-breaking-supercomputer-were-put-on-the-internet-by-mistake\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/details-of-a-top-secret-encrypti...by-mistake<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confidential details of a top-secret encryption-breaking supercomputer were left completely exposed on an unsecured computer server belonging to New York University (NYU), according to a new report. While it\u2019s not uncommon for even critical-level infrastructure to suffer potentially catastrophic security breaches, what makes this event different is that there was seemingly no foul-play or attempts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625,418,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-internet","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57373","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57557,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57373\/revisions\/57557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}