{"id":2669,"date":"2013-06-15T22:14:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T21:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2013-06-15T22:14:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T21:14:56","slug":"when-good-plugins-go-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2013\/when-good-plugins-go-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"When Good Plugins Go Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restricting the usage of Extensions<\/p>\n<p>We have been talking about this for a while, but it is important to repeat. Limit your usage of extensions (or plugins), along with all other third party components, and only use from trusted sources. More importantly, only if you need the said functionality. The less plugins you have configured in your environment, the less chances you have to be caught in a similar situation. The last thing you want is to become part of a SPAM botnet.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sucuri.net\/2013\/04\/when-good-plugins-go-bad-seo-spam-on-joomla-sites.html\">When Good Plugins Go Bad \u2013 SEO Spam on Joomla Websites | Sucuri Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restricting the usage of Extensions We have been talking about this for a while, but it is important to repeat. Limit your usage of extensions (or plugins), along with all other third party components, and only use from trusted sources. More importantly, only if you need the said functionality. The less plugins you have configured&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2013\/when-good-plugins-go-bad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Good Plugins Go Bad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}