{"id":98283,"date":"2009-12-24T08:38:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T13:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2009\/12\/24\/hackers-bring-holiday-headaches-to-amazon-wal-mart-mediamemo\/"},"modified":"2009-12-24T08:38:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T13:38:29","slug":"hackers-bring-holiday-headaches-to-amazon-wal-mart-mediamemo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/98283","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Bring Holiday Headaches to Amazon, Wal-Mart [MediaMemo]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/files\/2009\/12\/Grinch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14433\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/63f55_Grinch-250x297.jpg\" alt=\"Grinch\" width=\"250\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a>Bah humbug! Hackers spent part of Wednesday attacking Neustar, the DNS provider that helps link\u00a0 some of the Web&#8217;s biggest Websites to consumers, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-30684_3-10421577-265.html?tag=mncol;txt\">ended up disrupting big retailers like Amazon (AMZN) and Wal-Mart (WMT) for more an hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the obvious pain this has on last-minute Christmas shoppers, and the e-commerce sites that rely on them, the attack had an larger effect. Many <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffbarr\/status\/6983359095\">Web 2.0 companies that rely on the Amazon&#8217;s\u00a0 cloud computing services<\/a> to power their sites were also disrupted during the attack.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the incident seems resolved now, and assuming we don&#8217;t see any catastrophes in the last few hours before Christmas, e-commerce companies are going to end up doing pretty well during this holiday season. <a href=\"http:\/\/comscore.com\/Press_Events\/Press_Releases\/2009\/12\/Wintry_Weekend_Boosts_Online_Holiday_Sales_in_Final_Shopping_Weekend_of_the_Season\">Comscore (SCOR) estimates<\/a> that sales are up 4 percent this year.<\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20091224\/hackers-bring-holiday-headaches-to-amazon-wal-mart\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bah humbug! Hackers spent part of Wednesday attacking Neustar, the DNS provider that helps link\u00a0 some of the Web&#8217;s biggest Websites to consumers, and ended up disrupting big retailers like Amazon (AMZN) and Wal-Mart (WMT) for more an hour. In addition to the obvious pain this has on last-minute Christmas shoppers, and the e-commerce sites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98283","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=98283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}