{"id":11413,"date":"2026-03-18T02:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/free-parking-in-russia-after-distributed-denial-of-service-attack-knocks-citys-parking-system-offline\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T02:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:03:29","slug":"free-parking-in-russia-after-distributed-denial-of-service-attack-knocks-citys-parking-system-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/free-parking-in-russia-after-distributed-denial-of-service-attack-knocks-citys-parking-system-offline\/","title":{"rendered":"Free parking in Russia after Distributed Denial-of-Service attack knocks city\u2019s parking system offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Free parking in Russia after Distributed Denial-of-Service attack knocks city\u2019s parking system offline<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Drivers in the Russian city of Perm have been enjoying an unexpected bonus this week: free parking.<\/p>\n<p>Not because the city council suddenly decided to embrace generosity &#8211; but rather because hackers succeeded in knocking the city&#8217;s payment system offline.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/free-parking-russia-distributed-denial-of-service-attack-parking-system\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free parking in Russia after Distributed Denial-of-Service attack knocks city\u2019s parking system offline Drivers in the Russian city of Perm have been enjoying an unexpected bonus this week: free parking. Not because the city council suddenly decided to embrace generosity &#8211; but rather because hackers succeeded in knocking the city&#8217;s payment system offline. Read more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,171,54,155,2378,317],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-11413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ddos","category-denial-of-service","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-parking-meter","category-russia","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}