{"id":1242,"date":"2012-10-06T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2012-10-06T08:37:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T12:37:32","slug":"computer-attacks-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Computer Attacks in Real Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/betabeat.com\/\">BetaBeat<\/a> has a fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/betabeat.com\/2012\/09\/the-honeymap-offers-real-time-glimpse-of-cyber-attacks-as-they-happen\/\">article<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/global\/2012\/09\/real-time-map-global-cyberattacks\/57366\/\">The Atlantic Wire<\/a>) on a Honey Pot project that allows you to <a href=\"http:\/\/map.honeycloud.net\/\">watch attacks as they happen<\/a>. Every time there&#8217;s an attack, a red dot explodes on a world map at the source of the attack. A yellow dot explodes at the target site. A text box at the bottom shows more data on the attacking site, although the rate of attack is so rapid that it&#8217;s hard to read the text as it scrolls by.<\/p>\n<p>As BetaBeat says, it&#8217;s hard not to mouth exploding sounds as you watch the map. It&#8217;s insanely easy to waste several minutes just staring at the action. It&#8217;s almost like an over-the-top action movie. Be sure to read the BetaBeat (or Atlantic Wire) article for some help on interpreting the display and then go on over and be amazed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BetaBeat has a fascinating article (via The Atlantic Wire) on a Honey Pot project that allows you to watch attacks as they happen. Every time there&#8217;s an attack, a red dot explodes on a world map at the source of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=1242\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}