{"id":1687,"date":"2013-06-12T16:55:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T22:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2013-06-12T16:58:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T22:58:37","slug":"wireds-threat-level-blog-running-outdated-and-insecure-version-of-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/12\/wireds-threat-level-blog-running-outdated-and-insecure-version-of-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Wired’s Threat Level Blog Running Outdated and Insecure Version of WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keeping software running on a website up to date is an important part of keeping it secure<\/a>, but, as we have been focusing on a lot lately, organizations that you would expect to be up to task of handling their security are failing to do that. Whether it is web<\/a> security<\/a> companies<\/a>, a web security organization<\/a>, or major<\/a> government<\/a> websites<\/a> (the DHS<\/a> did finally get their website up to date, though) they are all failing to taking this easy security step. We can now add to this recent list, web security journalism.<\/p>\n

Here is the WordPress version powering Wired\u2019s Threat Level blog, which covers \u201cPrivacy, Crime and Security Online\u201d:<\/p>\n

\"Wired's<\/a><\/p>\n

Since they are running 3.4.2 they failed to update WordPress for seven months and more importantly they failed to update when a security release was put out back in January<\/a>. If an important source of security information isn\u2019t aware they need to keep their website up to date, it isn\u2019t a good sign that others will be getting that information either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keeping software running on a website up to date is an important part of keeping it secure, but, as we have been focusing on a lot lately, organizations that you would expect to be up to task of handling their security are failing to do that. Whether it is web security companies, a web security … Continue reading “Wired’s Threat Level Blog Running Outdated and Insecure Version of WordPress”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-security","category-outdated-web-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}