{"id":40358,"date":"2025-11-19T12:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=40358"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:10:25","slug":"rebecca-drucker-explains-botnets-in-wspa-7news-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/rebecca-drucker-explains-botnets-in-wspa-7news-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Drucker explains botnets in WSPA 7News story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wspa.com\/news\/botnets-could-your-devices-be-part-of-a-malicious-network\/\">WSPA 7News<\/a> tapped computer science expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/rebecca-drucker\/\">Rebecca Drucker<\/a> for a story about botnets, a network of internet connected devices infected with malware. Drucker, an assistant professor of computer science at Furman University, said targets of botnets rarely know they\u2019ve been hacked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if your devices don\u2019t have anything on them that you wouldn\u2019t want the hackers to know, even if it\u2019s something like &#8216;oh my smart plugs, my smart fridge &#8211; what are they possibly going to find out about me?&#8217; [Hackers] want those small computers so they can do their nefarious tasks,\u201d Drucker said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of Computer Science Rebecca Drucker says even benign computers found in smart refrigerators and smart plugs can fall prey to bad actors and botnets, large networks of malware-carrying devices. Drucker explains the threat on WSPA 7News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":40359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6,1578],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-science","category-in-the-news","category-wspa-7-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40360,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40358\/revisions\/40360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}