{"id":1505,"date":"2020-11-26T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2020-11-26T18:45:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T18:45:10","slug":"this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/11\/26\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Why We Can&#8217;t Have Nice Things!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s not very often I post negative things here but this one is regarding the very platform I&#8217;m using to show you this crap and the recent increase of hackers targeting WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well most, if not all, of the hacks are for plugins. Most of these hacks are quickly patched but some are abandoned and some admins aren&#8217;t vigilant and don&#8217;t keep their installations updated!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not naive, I know I&#8217;m not invulnerable, but this is a very slim installation of WordPress with very few plugins (none of which have been knowingly hacked yet) and kept up to date. If it ever does get hacked though I&#8217;ll sadly have to discontinue this blog. Hopefully I can stay on top of it and not let anything through between frequent updates. Such a pity that hackers have to get their dirty hands into just about every tiny corner, nook and cranny on the Internet. Sad fact of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not very often I post negative things here but this one is regarding the very platform I&#8217;m using to show you this crap and the recent increase of hackers targeting WordPress. Well most, if not all, of the hacks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/11\/26\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}