{"id":1117,"date":"2009-11-17T20:27:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T02:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bililite.nfshost.com\/blog\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2009-11-17T20:28:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T02:28:42","slug":"hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/17\/hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacked!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/73\/1073.html\">Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty<\/a>.<\/strong> Last month, the <a href=\"http:\/\/youngisrael-stl.org\">Young Israel site<\/a> was hacked and destroyed. A little talking with my <a href=\"http:\/\/1and1.com\">ISP<\/a>'s tech support reminded me that I had an old version of <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> on the site, in a folder called \"wordpress,\" and that it contained a <a href=\"http:\/\/lorelle.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/04\/old-wordpress-versions-under-attack\/\">vulnerability<\/a> that make the vandalism possible.<\/p>\r\n<p>When I <a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/06\/05\/moving-the-blog\/\">moved this blog<\/a>, I kept it updated, so I don't think it is vulnerable, but I completely forgot to remove the old one. I just changed the links to refer to the new one. Stupid! And now I've paid the price.<\/p>\r\n<p>Well, we got just about everything restored from backups (missing some old announcements that I don't think anyone will miss), and I <em>think<\/em> I've removed any vulnerable code. I also am now the proud owner of some cool-looking hacking software that was installed on the site that I want to try to take apart and experiment with. Just more tuition paid to the school of hard knocks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Last month, the Young Israel site was hacked and destroyed. A little talking with my ISP's tech support reminded me that I had an old version of WordPress on the site, in a folder called \"wordpress,\" and that it contained a vulnerability that make the vandalism possible. When [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}