{"id":1150,"date":"2018-05-09T15:35:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T07:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2018-05-09T15:35:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T07:35:17","slug":"malaysia-general-election-candidates-slam-dirty-trick-spam-calls-najib-orders-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/malaysia-general-election-candidates-slam-dirty-trick-spam-calls-najib-orders-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia general election candidates slam &#8216;dirty trick&#8217; spam calls; Najib orders action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the classic DDoS attack, but with a twist. Instead of spamming servers through the Internet, someone is spamming phone lines through a phone botnet. Similar to DDoS, this makes it difficult for legitimate calls to go through.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/asia\/malaysia-general-election-candidates-slam-spam-robocalls-10216432\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/screenshots-showing-unknown-calls-ge14.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Candidates for Malaysia&#8217;s 14th general election have claimed that their phones have been hacked and spammed with calls from overseas numbers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/asia\/malaysia-general-election-candidates-slam-spam-robocalls-10216432\">Malaysia general election candidates slam &#8216;dirty trick&#8217; spam calls; Najib orders action<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the classic DDoS attack, but with a twist. Instead of spamming servers through the Internet, someone is spamming phone lines through a phone botnet. Similar to DDoS, this makes it difficult for legitimate calls to go through. Candidates for Malaysia&#8217;s 14th general election have claimed that their phones have been hacked and spammed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}