{"id":20071,"date":"2025-09-14T06:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T04:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/password1-how-scammers-exploit-variations-of-your-logins\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T06:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T04:38:10","slug":"password1-how-scammers-exploit-variations-of-your-logins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/password1-how-scammers-exploit-variations-of-your-logins\/","title":{"rendered":"Password1: how scammers exploit variations of your logins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From avoiding recycling a password, even part of it, to two-step verification, steps to closing an open door for hackers<\/p>\n<p>The first you know about it is when you find out someone has accessed one of your accounts. You\u2019ve been careful with your details so you can\u2019t work out what has gone wrong, but you have made one mistake \u2013 recycling part of your password.<\/p>\n<p>Reusing the same word in a password \u2013 even if it is altered to include numbers or symbols \u2013 gives criminals a way in to your accounts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/sep\/14\/password1-scammers-logins-two-step-verification-hackers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/67943a1805dcd14298318dd9ce2dc650e53a61dc\/462_0_4640_3712\/master\/4640.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5f1b37d6a019b4f595d0645a6fc8e730\" title=\"Password1: how scammers exploit variations of your logins\" \/>From avoiding recycling a password, even part of it, to two-step verification, steps to closing an open door for hackers<br \/>\nThe first you know about it is when you find out someone has accessed one of your accounts. You\u2019ve been careful with your details so you can\u2019t work out what has gone wrong, but you have made one mistake \u2013 recycling part of your password.<br \/>\nReusing the same word in a password \u2013 even if it is altered to include numbers or symbols \u2013 gives criminals a way in to your accounts. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From avoiding recycling a password, even part of it, to two-step verification, steps to closing an open door for hackers The first you know about it is when you find out someone has accessed one of your accounts. You\u2019ve been careful with your details so you can\u2019t work out what has gone wrong, but you &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/password1-how-scammers-exploit-variations-of-your-logins\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Password1: how scammers exploit variations of your logins<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}