{"id":1478,"date":"2020-09-12T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T14:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2020-09-12T14:55:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T14:55:16","slug":"more-tech-safety-suggestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"More Tech Safety Suggestion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wOLOJnW_EeU\/X1zhEcemufI\/AAAAAAAAZME\/IBlI0G6p7QgAbWoKryQzFYKXumq8JuNrACLcBGAsYHQ\/s164\/email.PNG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-wOLOJnW_EeU\/X1zhEcemufI\/AAAAAAAAZME\/IBlI0G6p7QgAbWoKryQzFYKXumq8JuNrACLcBGAsYHQ\/s0\/email.PNG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week I blogged about my Evernote account being hacked.&nbsp; I reached out to some tech savvy colleagues for advice and wanted to share something with you that might be helpful.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An IT engineer recommended that I check my email accounts for hacks by visiting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/3114411359463302999\/6570397084734007102#\">https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s not a typo &#8211; it is pwned and not owned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enter your email address on the page and click pwned?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have several email accounts and I entered all of them to check.&nbsp; I was surprised to find that one had been breached.&nbsp; It was a government site from last summer that I use for genealogy research.&nbsp; I changed the password on that site and just to be more secure, changed my email password.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While changing my password I had another &#8220;Aha!&#8221; moment; I never took the time to really check out my email Security settings.&nbsp; The devices I have connected to the email are shown but I had to pause at the Third-party apps with account access.&nbsp; My bad for not reading the small print and clicking &#8220;I accept&#8221; when visiting an organization&#8217;s website!&nbsp; I had given permission unknowingly to two retail organizations to have access to my calendar and contacts.&nbsp; It was quite easy to disable that!&nbsp; I&#8217;ve begun my holiday shopping so after I&#8217;m done, I plan on rechecking my email account to see if I somehow give permission for access that is unwarranted.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just like covid, behind the scene activity to your tech tools can maliciously effect you!&nbsp; Take a few minutes to check it out and stay safe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I blogged about my Evernote account being hacked.&nbsp; I reached out to some tech savvy colleagues for advice and wanted to share something with you that might be helpful.&nbsp;&nbsp; An IT engineer recommended that I check my email accounts for hacks by visiting&nbsp;https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com That&#8217;s not a typo &#8211; it is pwned and not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=1478\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Tech Safety Suggestion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[358,875,876],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-email","tag-hack","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}