{"id":1740,"date":"2017-09-17T14:01:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T18:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2018-09-01T17:39:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T21:39:42","slug":"why-is-prompt-patching-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/17\/why-is-prompt-patching-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is prompt patching important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equifaxsecurity2017.com\/\">Equifax breach information page<\/a> has some interesting root cause analysis:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The particular vulnerability (that the bad guys used) in Apache Struts was identified and disclosed by U.S. CERT in early March 2017.<\/li>\n<li>The attack was done\u00a0May 13-July 30.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If they had responded promptly to the CERT advisory, this whole thing might not have happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Equifax breach information page has some interesting root cause analysis: The particular vulnerability (that the bad guys used) in Apache Struts was identified and disclosed by U.S. CERT in early March 2017. The attack was done\u00a0May 13-July 30. If they had responded promptly to the CERT advisory, this whole thing might not have happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}