{"id":42090,"date":"2014-01-15T22:14:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T22:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/smh_e\/"},"modified":"2014-01-15T22:14:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T22:14:10","slug":"smh_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42090","title":{"rendered":"(SMH) Experts say password-stealing software is a Huge Threat to Economy+Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shadowy steps your fingers take when you key in a password could be exposed through one of the slyest crimes in the digital playbook: &#8220;keystroke logging&#8221;. Also called &#8220;keylogging&#8221;, this is the remote, criminal act of recording which computer keys you press, through malware (malicious software).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Keystroke logging malware is one of the biggest threats to the economic well-being of us all,&#8221; says identity theft expert Steven Weisman, author of 50 Ways to Protect Your Identity in a Digital Age.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, it seems, it is easy to fall prey to the malware. According to Weisman, the identity thieves are smart at their shtick &#8211; luring users into clicking insidious links promising free music or video games to younger people and pornography to older people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/money\/planning\/keyloggers-stay-one-step-ahead-of-the-unguarded-20140114-30rd7.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shadowy steps your fingers take when you key in a password could be exposed through one of the slyest crimes in the digital playbook: &#8220;keystroke logging&#8221;. Also called &#8220;keylogging&#8221;, this is the remote, criminal act of recording which computer<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42090\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,94,582,589,143,149,168,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-blogging-the-internet","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}