{"id":2055,"date":"2014-12-04T07:12:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T15:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2023-12-18T07:28:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T15:28:24","slug":"why-your-most-important-password-is-the-one-that-secures-your-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/why-your-most-important-password-is-the-one-that-secures-your-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your most important password is the one that secures your email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people think that nobody would be interested in reading their email, so their email password doesn&#8217;t need to be secure. However if a hacker accesses your email consider the following common occurrences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A hacker can change your password and lock you out of your account.<\/li>\n<li>A hacker can go to financial and shopping websites and have password reset requests sent to your email address. With access to your financially related websites in the hands of a bad guy, you could potentially lose thousands of dollars.<\/li>\n<li>A hacker can copy your contact list and\/or send emails on your behalf asking for money or send spam and malware that appears to come from you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your email password is not unique or easily guessed by others, please see <a title=\"How to change your email password\" href=\"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/how-to-change-your-email-password\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how to change your email password<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest reading this more in-depth article by security researcher and former Washington Post reporter, Brian Krebs: <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2013\/06\/the-value-of-a-hacked-email-account\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Value of a Hacked Email Account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/why-your-most-important-password-is-the-one-that-secures-your-email\/print\/\" title=\"Print This Article\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print This Article\" title=\"Print This Article\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/why-your-most-important-password-is-the-one-that-secures-your-email\/print\/\" title=\"Print This Article\" rel=\"nofollow\">Print This Article<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people think that nobody would be interested in reading their email, so their email password doesn&#8217;t need to be secure. However if a hacker accesses your email consider the following common occurrences: A hacker can change your password and lock you out of your account. A hacker can go to financial and shopping websites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing-tips","category-passwords","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2554,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}