{"id":73912,"date":"2013-03-27T12:02:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T10:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=73912"},"modified":"2013-03-27T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T10:44:56","slug":"bad-online-passwords-are-you-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/73912-bad-online-passwords-are-you-guilty.html","title":{"rendered":"Bad online passwords: are you guilty?"},"content":{"rendered":"

New information released by Kaspersky Lab<\/a> shows that many Internet users make themselves vulnerable to attacks through weak passwords and poor password management.<\/p>\n

Online life is increasing, and services such as social networks, e-mail and online banking require a username and password.<\/p>\n

Using easy-to-remember passwords, which include regularly used passwords (like 123456 or password) and easily guessed passwords (like your middle name or pet\u2019s name), create significant security weaknesses.<\/p>\n

However, to memorize strong multiple alphanumeric combinations is challenging, which means that many people use the same password for different services. This is, in short, a very bad idea.<\/p>\n

The main issue with one password, even it is a strong password, is that if you somehow lose it, cybercriminals can steal everything from your online life almost instantly.<\/p>\n

Kaspersky Labs suggest that Internet citizens use a new password for every online service, using only strong passwords and memorize passwords or use a secure program to store them.<\/p>\n

The following infographic summarizes the findings from Kaspersky Labs.<\/p>\n

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Online password infographic from Kaspersky Lab<\/p><\/div>\n

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Beware saving passwords in your browser<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you use the same password for all online accounts? Or do you write down your passwords somewhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,161,799,3676],"class_list":["post-73912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-kaspersky-lab","tag-passwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73912"}],"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=73912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73992,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73912\/revisions\/73992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}