Over the past couple of weeks we have noticed that there have been multiple attempts to hack into our website from an IP address located in China, despite the fact that we already strictly control access to this. Looking at what they were doing we discovered that they were attempting to use a built-in WordPress API which in effect allows third party applications access to the back end site infrastructure; although the existing site security had blocked them, we have now put in place additional measure to restrict access to the API......

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