{"id":2220,"date":"2012-10-07T16:22:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T20:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2012-10-07T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T20:22:20","slug":"quick-blog-security-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/archives\/2220","title":{"rendered":"Quick blog security things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just did a few blog security updates.\u00a0 From my end, everything looks and functions properly after the changes.\u00a0 I was getting almost daily brute force attacks, so I did some additional security tightening, even though none of the attempts had managed to get through the measures already in place.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you remember your password, if you do have a username for the blog for some reason<\/p>\n<p>( No real need for it, just post using your email and you don&#8217;t need to sign up.\u00a0 Website login doesn&#8217;t carry over to the blog &#8212; it&#8217;s separate )<\/p>\n<p>Reason being that I&#8217;ve locked down login attempts to 1 retry before a fifteen minute lockout.\u00a0 A second lockout results in a 24 hour lockout.<\/p>\n<p>If they want to keep trying what they&#8217;ve been up to, they&#8217;re going to have to do it very, very, slowly ( and I&#8217;ll probably ban their IP after a couple of attempts anyway )<\/p>\n<p>Still struggling to find the energy to write.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just in one of those slumps again.\u00a0 There&#8217;s not really much I can do about it when one hits other than muse on stories and wait for one to grab hold of me so hard that it jump-starts me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just did a few blog security updates.\u00a0 From my end, everything looks and functions properly after the changes.\u00a0 I was getting almost daily brute force attacks, so I did some additional security tightening, even though none of the attempts had managed to get through the measures already in place. Make sure you remember your password, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}