{"id":614132,"date":"2009-12-15T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-9008061365590800114"},"modified":"2009-12-18T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T22:02:11","slug":"never-a-good-feeling-%e2%80%93-an-attack-on-my-google-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/614132","title":{"rendered":"Never a good feeling \u2013 an attack on my Google account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone just made 3 attempts to reset my Google Password. The reset notice I received includes this statement \u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026 If you&#8217;ve received this mail in error, it&#8217;s likely that another user entered    <br \/>your email address by mistake while trying to reset a password. If you didn&#8217;t     <br \/>initiate the request, you don&#8217;t need to take any further action and can safely     <br \/>disregard this email\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A mistake. Suurre it\u2019s a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>I have a robust Google password, but the risk here is that someone has access to a secondary account that receives my Google password reset requests. Those have robust passwords too, but there are always weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>Just to be on the safe side I\u2019ve reviewed my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/accounts\/UpdateAccountRecoveryOptions?service=mail\">Google accounts password recovery options<\/a> and they look good.<\/p>\n<p>Brrr. I hate passwords. I\u2019d have bet good money in 1996 that we\u2019d have robust biometric authentication by now. I\u2019d have lost every penny. A good lesson about predicting the future.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update 11\/18\/09<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labnol.org\/internet\/gmail-and-google-apps-hacked\/11799\/\">Amit Agarwal was hacked around the same time I was attacked<\/a>. It&#8217;s not clear how they hacked in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-9008061365590800114?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone just made 3 attempts to reset my Google Password. The reset notice I received includes this statement \u2026 \u2026 If you&#8217;ve received this mail in error, it&#8217;s likely that another user entered your email address by mistake while trying to reset a password. If you didn&#8217;t initiate the request, you don&#8217;t need to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2zLm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}