{"id":41385,"date":"2012-01-17T10:02:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T08:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=41385"},"modified":"2012-01-17T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T12:33:31","slug":"beware-saving-passwords-in-your-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/41385-beware-saving-passwords-in-your-browser.html","title":{"rendered":"Beware saving passwords in your browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saving passwords in <a title=\"Firefox\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/220755-Firefox\">Firefox<\/a> makes it easy to access websites requiring you to log in without having to remember your username and password, but it comes with a significant security risk.<\/p>\n<p>A full list of all your saved passwords in Firefox is available to anyone within a few clicks if they gain access to your computer.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure to see all your saved passwords is simple:\u00a0 Tools\/Options &gt;&gt; Options &gt;&gt; Security &gt;&gt; Saved Passwords &gt;&gt; Show passwords.<\/p>\n<p>There is luckily an easy way to protect your saved passwords in Firefox (apart from making sure that you never leave your computer unattended) \u2013 set a master password.<\/p>\n<p>To set a master password Tools\/Options &gt;&gt; Options &gt;&gt; Security &gt;&gt; Select \u201cUse a master password\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Using a master password makes surfing the web less convenient, but removing the risk of having all your passwords exposed may be worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is surprisingly easy for someone to get all your saved passwords from your Firefox browser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[981,35,8197],"class_list":["post-41385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-firefox","tag-headline","tag-online-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41387,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41385\/revisions\/41387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}