{"id":6186,"date":"2014-08-25T18:20:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T22:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6186"},"modified":"2014-08-26T00:15:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T04:15:34","slug":"spam-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6186","title":{"rendered":"Spam alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#8217;m aware of the spam on the blog front page. The management does not hawk dubious drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Franke and I just did an audit and re-secure of the blog last night, so this is a new attack. Looks like a different vector; previously the spam was edited into the posts and invisible, this time it&#8217;s only in the front-page display and visible.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fresh instance of WordPress verified against pristine sources less than 24 hours ago, all permissions checked. Accordingly, this may be a zero-day attack.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel and I will tackle it later tonight after his dinner and my kung-fu class. I&#8217;ll update this post with news.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The initial spam has been removed. We don&#8217;t know where the hole is, though, so more may appear.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE2: It&#8217;s now about 6 hours later and spam has not reappeared.\u00a0 I changed my blog password for a stronger one, so one theory is that the bad guys were running a really good dictionary cracker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#8217;m aware of the spam on the blog front page. The management does not hawk dubious drugs. Daniel Franke and I just did an audit and re-secure of the blog last night, so this is a new attack. Looks like a different vector; previously the spam was edited into the posts and invisible, this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6186\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spam alert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrivia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6194,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions\/6194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}