{"id":63149,"date":"2026-01-17T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63149"},"modified":"2026-01-17T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:12:09","slug":"practical-ways-to-protect-yourself-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=63149","title":{"rendered":"Practical ways to protect yourself online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Security_Site.jpg\" alt=\"Security Site\" width=\"1467\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Security_Site.jpg 1467w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Security_Site-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Security_Site-1024x543.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Security_Site-768x407.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You have a connection to the internet. You need to protect your device. Here are some tips on how to do that:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyber.gov.au\/learn-basics\">https:\/\/www.cyber.gov.au\/learn-basics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have a connection to the internet. You need to protect your device. Here are some tips on how to do that:\u00a0https:\/\/www.cyber.gov.au\/learn-basics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tips-basic","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63151,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63149\/revisions\/63151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}