{"id":18045,"date":"2012-12-04T09:58:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T14:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18045"},"modified":"2012-12-04T09:58:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T14:58:33","slug":"tumblr-gets-trolled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/tumblr-gets-trolled\/","title":{"rendered":"Tumblr gets trolled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Register<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/12\/04\/tumblr_javascript_worm\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Leyden<\/a> on the JavaScript troubles inflicted on <em>Tumblr<\/em> the other day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A worm spread like wildfire across Tumblr on Monday, defacing pages on the blogging website with an abusive message penned by a notorious trolling crew.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak was triggered by the GNAA, a group of anonymous troublemakers who get their kicks from winding up bloggers with offensive posts.<\/p>\n<p>Tumblr temporarily halted the publication of new journal posts to prevent the worm from spreading further before restoring the service to normal a few hours later.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It appears that the worm took advantage of Tumblr&#8217;s reblogging feature, meaning that anyone who was logged into Tumblr would automatically reblog the infectious post if they visited one of the offending pages,&#8221; wrote Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It shouldn&#8217;t have been possible for someone to post such malicious JavaScript into a Tumblr post &mdash; our assumption is that the attackers managed to skirt around Tumblr&#8217;s defences by disguising their code through Base 64 encoding and embedding it in a data URI,&#8221; he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Register&#8216;s John Leyden on the JavaScript troubles inflicted on Tumblr the other day: A worm spread like wildfire across Tumblr on Monday, defacing pages on the blogging website with an abusive message penned by a notorious trolling crew. The outbreak was triggered by the GNAA, a group of anonymous troublemakers who get their kicks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[318,204,129,334,92],"class_list":["post-18045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology","tag-anonymous","tag-blogging","tag-hack","tag-security","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4H3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18047,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045\/revisions\/18047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}