{"id":33720,"date":"2018-11-09T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T11:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=33720"},"modified":"2018-11-09T19:29:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T11:29:41","slug":"reminders-for-a-safe-and-stress-free-online-shopping-experience-this-11-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/11\/09\/reminders-for-a-safe-and-stress-free-online-shopping-experience-this-11-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminders for a safe and stress-free online shopping experience this 11.11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0With 11.11 online sales happening this weekend, Sophos hopes to take the time to share the following advice to help shoppers keep their personal data and finances safe.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sophos\u2019\u00a0reminders to have a safe and stress-free online shopping experience this 11.11:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>If it sounds too good to be true, it IS too good to be true. There is no such thing as a free iPhone.<\/li>\n<li>Never fill in purchase details on a website that doesn\u2019t use a secure (encrypted) connection. Don\u2019t be fooled by padlock images in the webpage itself: look for\u00a0the padlock in your browser\u2019s address bar.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t click on links in unsolicited emails. Those links could land you on a phishing website or a website that will infect you with malware via what\u2019s known as a\u00a0drive-by download. Always type in the website address but be careful of mistyped addresses where cybercrooks may be squatting. Bookmark the sites you\u00a0typically visit for shopping, banking, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Watch out for sites that ask for way too much information, such as your card PIN \u2013 which is not used online \u2013 Social Security number or national ID number.\u00a0And never share your passwords. IF IN DOUBT, GIVE NOTHING OUT.<\/li>\n<li>Scrutinize your bank statements. Check your bank account transactions regularly for signs of fraud, particularly after making purchases online. If you discover\u00a0payments that you can\u2019t identify, notify your bank immediately.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophos hopes to take the time to share the following advice to help shoppers keep their personal data and finances safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":32929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26],"tags":[302,746,206,96],"class_list":["post-33720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-opinions","tag-apps-2","tag-online-shopping","tag-sophos","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}