Blog Defacement

Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:43:32 +0000

While I am now hosting this blog for nearly 9 years - without any incident - problems tend to happen sooner or later. A lot of hassle and problems has been reduced due to the WordPress Auto Update system - so to update WordPress itself, as well as its plugins - and it works great. However, WordPress introduced - and enabled by default - a REST API - which has a great deal of security problems. And without me always checking each installed version - well, I did not know that… The REST API problems should be fixed by now, but - that came a bit too late for my blog. Nonetheless, I would recommend going to Jetpack -> Settings and disabling JSON API - especially if you’re not using it… I learned it the hard way ^^’..

Security Problems on Nico Maas

Blog Defacement