{"id":4084,"date":"2009-02-25T08:25:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T12:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Phishing-Scam-Targets-Google-Talk"},"modified":"2009-02-25T08:25:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T12:25:32","slug":"phishing-scam-targets-google-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=4084","title":{"rendered":"Phishing Scam Targets Google Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Google can\u2019t catch a break. Just hours after Google\u2019s Gmail service was hit by an outage that lasted several hours, Google Talk became the victim of a phishing scam. Users of the instant messaging service received a TinyURL link that appeared to be from friends on their buddy lists. When a user clicked the link, it would take him to a webpage that asked for his Google username and password. After doing so, the program would send similar messages to everyone on the user\u2019s contact list. While many consumers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Google can\u2019t catch a break. Just hours after Google\u2019s Gmail service was hit by an outage that lasted several hours, Google Talk became the victim of a phishing scam. Users of the instant messaging service received a TinyURL link that appeared to be from friends on their buddy lists. When a user clicked the link, it would take him to a webpage that asked for his Google username and password. After doing so, the program would send similar messages to everyone on the user\u2019s contact list. While many consumers <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=4084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}