{"id":30893,"date":"2012-01-17T11:54:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T09:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30893"},"modified":"2012-01-17T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T09:55:11","slug":"beware-of-saving-passwords-in-your-web-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/30893-beware-of-saving-passwords-in-your-web-browser","title":{"rendered":"Beware of saving passwords in your web browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saving passwords in Firefox 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>Gamers may leave their system vulnerable while attending a LAN, an especially dangerous move when attending a public event.<\/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<p><em>Article courtesy of MyBroadband &#8211; <strong><a title=\"Beware saving passwords in your browser\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/41385-beware-saving-passwords-in-your-browser.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beware saving passwords in your browser<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/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":173,"featured_media":30895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,1521,2005,1461],"class_list":["post-30893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-browser","tag-firefox","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30896,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30893\/revisions\/30896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}