{"id":5047,"date":"2011-10-05T17:41:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T22:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=5047"},"modified":"2011-10-05T17:41:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T22:41:47","slug":"site-news-the-sombrero-is-healed-and-functional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/5047","title":{"rendered":"Site News: The Sombrero is healed and functional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/goldensombrero_binny2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5048\" title=\"goldensombrero_binny\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/goldensombrero_binny2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>As most of you have probably noticed, the website has been red-flagged by Google as a suspicious site and a warning page pops up when it\u2019s first accessed.\u00a0 Basically, a hack of the GoDaddy server that hosts the Sombrero exposed a specific vulnerability in many sites, and malware was embedded in several key files and directories.\u00a0 While the site appeared to be functioning fine on the surface, that is if chose to shrug off your browser\u2019s warning, I received a fatal error message every time I attempted to access the admin dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>After spending an obscene amount of time reading about similar attacks and how they were resolved, making small talk with a host of GoDaddy tech support goons, and bugging the crap out of the Sombrero\u2019s Tech Support guru, Benny, everything is officially back to normal and safe for viewing.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the site\u2019s design and overall appearance has been slightly altered in response to this week\u2019s problems, although it\u2019s not definitely overshadowed by that alarming splash page.\u00a0 Anyway, don\u2019t be surprised to see a few more changes to the layout in the upcoming weeks, and if you have any suggestions, feel free to <a href=\"mailto:mrosenb926@gmail.com\">contact me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for everyone\u2019s on-going support of the Sombrero and please remain patient as we rebound from this mess.\u00a0 Stay up-to-date with us by liking our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/The-Golden-Sombrero-Baseball-Blog\/118245738193568\">Facebook page<\/a>, following us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GoldenSombrero\">Twitter<\/a>, and subscribing to our <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/TheGoldenSombreroBaseballBlog\">RSS feed<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you have probably noticed, the website has been red-flagged by Google as a suspicious site and a warning page pops up when it\u2019s first accessed.\u00a0 Basically, a hack of the GoDaddy server that hosts the Sombrero exposed a specific vulnerability in many sites, and malware was embedded in several key files and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,6,16,776],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5051,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}