{"id":4207,"date":"2009-07-15T22:29:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T02:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/?p=4207"},"modified":"2009-07-15T22:29:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T02:29:52","slug":"protect-your-ftp-transfers-by-using-sftp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2009\/07\/protect-your-ftp-transfers-by-using-sftp\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect your FTP transfers by using SFTP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Did you know that every time you connect to your ftp site using regular &#8220;ftp:\/\/&#8221; (or not specifying at all), your username and password are fully visible to anyone sniffing around at the right time, which exposes your site to being hacked.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most reputable hosts these days support secure FTP, and if you&#8217;re using an average to good FTP program you can choose to connect using SFTP. Once you do this it will likely trigger a security certificate issue (which you just accept) and you&#8217;re on your way to having fully encrypted data transfers. In CuteFTP I simply connect to sftp:\/\/yummy-wakame.com instead of ftp:\/\/yummy-wakame.com, and it changes the ports and all the settings automatically for me. Depending on your FTP client it may be a little more complicated than this but its definitely worth a try. I now connect to all my clients websites in this way and thought I&#8217;d share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that every time you connect to your ftp site using regular &#8220;ftp:\/\/&#8221; (or not specifying at all), your username and password are fully visible to anyone sniffing around at the right time, which exposes your site to being hacked. Most reputable hosts these days support secure FTP, and if you&#8217;re using an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}