{"id":189,"date":"2009-12-29T16:55:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T22:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2009-12-29T16:56:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T22:56:51","slug":"please-please-use-smart-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/2009\/12\/29\/please-please-use-smart-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Please, please use smart passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time last night, I had my login to godaddy hacked. \u00c2\u00a0The best cause I can come up with is it was a brute force that got my password on a off chance. \u00c2\u00a0How? \u00c2\u00a0It was a word and a number right after.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten everything resolved &#8211; godaddy was very helpful via a phone call &#8211; but it&#8217;s a lesson will learned. \u00c2\u00a0Use hardened passwords, even for the small stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The result was the 16 domains I run were redirected to some site whose address is in Monserrat (.me). \u00c2\u00a0Not a lot of damage, just annoying &#8211; and realtively easy to repair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time last night, I had my login to godaddy hacked. \u00c2\u00a0The best cause I can come up with is it was a brute force that got my password on a off chance. \u00c2\u00a0How? \u00c2\u00a0It was a word and a number right after. I&#8217;ve gotten everything resolved &#8211; godaddy was very helpful via a phone &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/2009\/12\/29\/please-please-use-smart-passwords\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Please, please use smart passwords&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[70,8,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuz-im-lazy","category-geek","category-wtf","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eb30-33","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}