{"id":6042,"date":"2014-04-30T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T07:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2014-04-26T14:29:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T21:29:56","slug":"have-you-been-hacked-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6042","title":{"rendered":"Have You Been Hacked Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you haven&#8217;t suffered the indignity of being hacked. Easy passwords are easy to steal. It doesn&#8217;t surprise me when I see some spam email from a friend&#8217;s account, but it does surprise me when that friend is someone I figure should know better.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe recent Heartbleed bug should have roused everyone&#8217;s attention: Change your passwords often. Use complex passwords. And don&#8217;t be a fool and use the same password for <em>everything<\/em>. That portends certain peril.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my guidelines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have a password for your computer. If it&#8217;s a desktop, the password doesn&#8217;t need to be serious, especially for a home computer. For the office computer, yes: Use a nice, tough password.<\/li>\n<li>Laptop computers <em>all<\/em> require a complex password.<\/li>\n<li>Use a password or PIN for your phone or tablet.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use <code>1234<\/code>, <code>0000<\/code>, or <code>1111<\/code> as your PIN. These are most common PINs and they&#8217;re the first ones that the Bad Guys try.<\/li>\n<li>Each online account should have its own, unique password.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s okay to tell the Web browser to memorize passwords for common accounts. It&#8217;s not okay to memorize passwords for your online banking or anything serious. For example, if you&#8217;ve saved your credit card information on Amazon, do not have the browser save your account password.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That last point is worth driving home: Consider your phone or tablet. Consider that it doesn&#8217;t have a password or PIN. If you use Google Chrome and it has memorized your Amazon password, then someone can lift your phone, visit Amazon, sign in, and buy lots of stuff. In that scenario, security is non-existent. That is, unless you tell Chrome <em>not<\/em> to save your password.<\/p>\n<p>Or, of course, you have a password or PIN assigned to your phone in the first place. That&#8217;s the wise move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please O Please have a decent password, not only on your computer but your phone and tablet as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,15],"class_list":["post-6042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-android","tag-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6053,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions\/6053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}