{"id":299060,"date":"2010-02-09T17:23:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T22:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5098"},"modified":"2010-02-09T17:23:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T22:23:28","slug":"you-could-not-make-it-up-climate-economists-email-security-breach-channel-4-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/299060","title":{"rendered":"You Could Not Make it Up: Climate economist&#8217;s email security breach, Channel 4 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=299\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;You could not make it up&quot;\">You could not make it up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <em>The British government&#8217;s climate change guru, Lord Stern, has had his emails sabotaged, Channel 4 News can reveal.  <\/p>\n<p>Lord Stern, author of the influential Stern Review on the economics of climate change and vocal advocate of the danger of man-made climate change, recently left government to head the London School of Economic&#8217;s Grantham Institute for Climate Change. <\/p>\n<p>The Institute confirmed to Channel 4 News that Lord Stern&#8217;s email account was targeted last week. <\/p>\n<p>A trojan horse computer virus was embedded in his account which then sent itself to other contacts in the economist&#8217;s inbox.  <\/p>\n<p>The email containing the virus appeared to come from Lord Stern himself but the Institute will not disclose the subject of the email or who may have been a receipient of the messages. <\/p>\n<p>However, their technology department was able to establish that the breach originated in the United States.<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: channel4.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5098\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8MirrY-frKtMiRrOisa7CAMeerU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8MirrY-frKtMiRrOisa7CAMeerU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8MirrY-frKtMiRrOisa7CAMeerU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8MirrY-frKtMiRrOisa7CAMeerU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/iHT59fU0lwY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: You could not make it up The British government&#8217;s climate change guru, Lord Stern, has had his emails sabotaged, Channel 4 News can reveal. Lord Stern, author of the influential Stern Review on the economics of climate change and vocal advocate of the danger of man-made climate change, recently left government to head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}