{"id":20517,"date":"2025-10-18T19:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/i-lost-25-pounds-in-20-days-what-its-like-to-be-on-the-frontline-of-a-global-cyber-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T19:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:37:15","slug":"i-lost-25-pounds-in-20-days-what-its-like-to-be-on-the-frontline-of-a-global-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/i-lost-25-pounds-in-20-days-what-its-like-to-be-on-the-frontline-of-a-global-cyber-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I lost 25 pounds in 20 days\u2019: what it\u2019s like to be on the frontline of a global cyber-attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The security chief of SolarWinds reflects on the Russian hack that exposed US government agencies \u2013 and the heart attack he suffered in the aftermath<\/p>\n<p>Tim Brown will remember 12 December 2020 for ever.<\/p>\n<p>It was the day the software company SolarWinds was notified it had been hacked by Russia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/19\/global-cyber-attack-russian-hack-solarwinds-stress-health\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/87e4c065a1c71b75c51358c052c62e149a9807d1\/998_588_4096_3277\/master\/4096.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cbf99981b736de4a68df0058c5edf0f6\" title=\"\u2018I lost 25 pounds in 20 days\u2019: what it\u2019s like to be on the frontline of a global cyber-attack\" \/>The security chief of SolarWinds reflects on the Russian hack that exposed US government agencies \u2013 and the heart attack he suffered in the aftermath<br \/>\nTim Brown will remember 12 December 2020 for ever.<br \/>\nIt was the day the software company SolarWinds was notified it had been hacked by Russia. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The security chief of SolarWinds reflects on the Russian hack that exposed US government agencies \u2013 and the heart attack he suffered in the aftermath Tim Brown will remember 12 December 2020 for ever. It was the day the software company SolarWinds was notified it had been hacked by Russia. Continue reading&#8230; The security chief &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/i-lost-25-pounds-in-20-days-what-its-like-to-be-on-the-frontline-of-a-global-cyber-attack\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018I lost 25 pounds in 20 days\u2019: what it\u2019s like to be on the frontline of a global cyber-attack<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}