{"id":10268,"date":"2017-11-20T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T07:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=10268"},"modified":"2017-11-20T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T07:16:09","slug":"blocked-countries-by-wordfence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=10268","title":{"rendered":"Blocked Countries by WordFence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;China is in the lead&#8221; &#8230; of blocked countries. My humble website is constantly being sniffed at from the outside. To me it makes no sense on the surface &#8211; I have no confidential data or business secrets whatsoever. I do not do eCommerce or any business transactions for that matter. I do not even make poor stock market predictions!<\/p>\n<p>But it makes sense to the potential intruders. These are likely bots just doing recon, searching for WordPress, Plugin or theme weaknesses and other possible pots of gold. Thankfully, I am fully invested in &#8220;WordFence&#8221;, an outstanding WordPress firewall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?attachment_id=10269\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10269\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10269\" src=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CN-WFence-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CN-WFence-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/riguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CN-WFence-768x881.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CN-WFence.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;China is in the lead&#8221; &#8230; of blocked countries. My humble website is constantly being sniffed at from the outside. To me it makes no sense on the surface &#8211; I have no confidential data or business secrets whatsoever. I do not do eCommerce or any business transactions for that matter. I do not even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=10268\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blocked Countries by WordFence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[371,351],"tags":[531,381,341],"class_list":["post-10268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-wordpress","tag-database-replication","tag-hackers","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10270,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268\/revisions\/10270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}