{"id":407,"date":"2011-05-05T10:32:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/05\/lastpass-warns-of-potential-breach-ratchets-up-security\/"},"modified":"2011-05-05T10:32:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T14:32:33","slug":"lastpass-warns-of-potential-breach-ratchets-up-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/05\/lastpass-warns-of-potential-breach-ratchets-up-security\/","title":{"rendered":"LastPass Warns of Potential Breach, Ratchets Up Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK FOLKS, TAKE NOTE LAST PASS MAY HAVE BEEN HACKED!! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/CXOkJ\">Read about it here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t use them, but I know many people who do! CHANGE YOUR MASTER PASSWORD IMMEDIATELY!   <br \/>It&#8217;s important to note that they have no evidence that anyone was actually compromised &#8211; <u><strong><em>YET.<\/em><\/strong><\/u> <\/p>\n<p>Once you change your master password any breach that may have happened will be rendered moot. Their service is still good, I\u2019m sure \u2013 just not good enough for me.<\/p>\n<p>I have used <a href=\"http:\/\/keepass.info\/\">KeePass<\/a> for years and looks like I will continue to do so now for sure &#8211; it is open source and resides on YOUR system(s). It may not be as &#8216;slick&#8217; and completely web based as LastPass but I trust it more. I guess I will NOT be migrating to that service after all.<\/p>\n<p>As a systems administrator and IT guy, I have no less than 78 items in my main password safe! And I have a few smaller \u2018safes\u2019 for some of my clients. So it is necessary for me to have a place to keep them all and of course a flat file or piece of paper wouldn\u2019t work.   <br \/>I keep a KeePass safe on my machines that I sync and also on a usb drive. I have always believed in owning my information.<\/p>\n<p>Be safe folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK FOLKS, TAKE NOTE LAST PASS MAY HAVE BEEN HACKED!! Read about it here. I don&#8217;t use them, but I know many people who do! CHANGE YOUR MASTER PASSWORD IMMEDIATELY! It&#8217;s important to note that they have no evidence that anyone was actually compromised &#8211; YET. Once you change your master password any breach that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/05\/lastpass-warns-of-potential-breach-ratchets-up-security\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LastPass Warns of Potential Breach, Ratchets Up Security&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,169,50,79,32,21],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}