{"id":175,"date":"2010-03-13T20:03:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T01:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=175"},"modified":"2010-03-13T20:03:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T01:03:43","slug":"hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Hacked!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been running an elderly version of WordPress for my blog.\u00a0 Today when I logged on to add a new post my virus checker freaked out (avast home edition 4.8,\u00a0 I know it works now).<\/p>\n<p>I sniffed around on the server a bit and discovered the php script for my page footer had been modified on March 7th.\u00a0 I hadn&#8217;t changed it, so I contacted my overwhelmingly capable system administer (and youngest son) and he ferreted out the attack was coming from someone in Holland.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He blocked them, and I set about upgrading to the newest (and presumably securest) version of WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>It was a bit more pain to upgrade than I hoped, but once I eradicated all traces of the old version my blog was back on-line.<\/p>\n<p>I had a big stack of farm magazines to read on this cold and rainy Saturday that didn&#8217;t get touched since I&#8217;ve spent all afternoon flailing with this.\u00a0 What did learn from this?\u00a0 I find myself wagging my head like J.K. Simmons at the end of\u00a0 &#8220;Burn After Reading&#8221; and saying, &#8220;I guess we learned not to do it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been running an elderly version of WordPress for my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}