{"id":20231,"date":"2017-11-21T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=20231"},"modified":"2017-11-20T08:52:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T13:52:56","slug":"quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal\/20231\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz: Hacker vs. squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no secret that cyberattacks can put factories, newspapers, ships, and the like, out of operation. But it turns out that hackers are not the only folks capable of wreaking havoc in the realm of critical infrastructure \u2014 we underestimate the power of Mother Nature at our peril. And we\u2019re not just talking about cataclysmic weather events, but \u2026 animals and birds.<\/p>\n<p>US information security expert Chris Thomas (aka Space Rogue) created a project, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cybersquirrel1.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cyber Squirrel 1<\/a>, that demonstrates hackers\u2019 insignificance in the cyberwars compared with tech\u2019s real enemies: wild animals. The number of cases of our four-legged (and other) friends squirreling their way in and disrupting hi-tech systems runs into the thousands.<\/p>\n<p>How do they do it? You\u2019re about to find out. Take our quiz and try to guess which malfunctions were caused by a human cyberattack and which were the result of a furry black-op.<\/p>\n<div data-opinionstage-embed-url=\"https:\/\/www.opinionstage.com\/api\/v1\/widgets\/kasperskysm\/hacker-vs-squirrel\/code.json?width=\" style=\"display: none; visibility: hidden;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess the villain \u2014 was it hackers or wild animals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2455,"featured_media":20230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2683],"tags":[756,78,458,97,2768,1792,629,422],"class_list":{"0":"post-20231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-threats","8":"tag-critical-infrastructure","9":"tag-hackers","10":"tag-quiz","11":"tag-security-2","12":"tag-squirrels","13":"tag-test","14":"tag-tests","15":"tag-threats"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal\/20231\/"},{"hreflang":"en-in","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal\/11853\/"},{"hreflang":"en-ae","url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal\/9870\/"},{"hreflang":"en-us","url":"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/blog\/quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal\/14112\/"},{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal\/12309\/"},{"hreflang":"es-mx","url":"https:\/\/latam.kaspersky.com\/blog\/quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal\/12110\/"},{"hreflang":"es","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.es\/blog\/quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal\/14905\/"},{"hreflang":"it","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.it\/blog\/quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal\/14747\/"},{"hreflang":"ru","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.ru\/blog\/quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal\/19218\/"},{"hreflang":"tr","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.tr\/blog\/quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal\/4475\/"},{"hreflang":"de","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.de\/blog\/quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal\/15398\/"},{"hreflang":"ja","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.co.jp\/quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal\/18893\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal\/19090\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/quiz-hackers-or-wild-animal\/19080\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/quiz\/","name":"quiz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20232,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231\/revisions\/20232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}