{"id":321,"date":"2014-11-09T12:21:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T17:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2014-11-09T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T17:21:16","slug":"keeping-up-with-the-botnets-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Keeping up with the Botnets Round 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping up with tracking how many botnets are out there scanning WordPress blogs. \u00a0I&#8217;ve eventually resorted to blocking huge chunks of the Internet via .htaccess files. \u00a0 So far it&#8217;s been quite effective in limiting the number of botnet login attempts.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone is interested, I&#8217;ve put the limit portion of my <a title=\"My .htaccess\" href=\"http:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/files\/myhtaccess.txt\">.htaccess<\/a> file here. \u00a0Feel free to use it and customize for your needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping up with tracking how many botnets are out there scanning WordPress blogs. \u00a0I&#8217;ve eventually resorted to blocking huge chunks of the Internet via .htaccess files. \u00a0 So far it&#8217;s been quite effective in limiting the number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/?p=321\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}