{"id":18675,"date":"2016-03-10T15:56:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T22:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/?p=18675"},"modified":"2023-12-01T11:14:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:14:40","slug":"18675","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/2016\/03\/10\/18675\/","title":{"rendered":"Love the City You Live In? So do Cybercriminals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Myth: There is no link\u00a0between your real-life location and your digital one.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that the two are very much connected. Perhaps more importantly, then, is what this means when it comes to your personal security. If the state or city in which you live is\u00a0a hotbed for cybercriminal activity, your chances of being infected online increase significantly. Couple this with the fact that hackers are constantly refining their attack methods and finding new ways to make a profit, and you have yourself a potential recipe for personal information loss disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, you can prevent that from happening and stop those cybercrooks right in their tracks. How? By making sure your\u00a0devices are protected. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webroot.com\/us\/en\/home\/promotions\/states\">cybersecurity<\/a> that actually works. It also helps knowing which states and cities hackers choose as their favorite targets. The infographic below breaks it down.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18681 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-en.webroot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Targeted-States-Infographic-01.jpg\" alt=\"Targeted States Infographic-01\" width=\"630\" height=\"3566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-en.webroot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Targeted-States-Infographic-01.jpg 630w, https:\/\/blog-en.webroot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Targeted-States-Infographic-01-768x4347.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myth: There is no link\u00a0between your real-life location and your digital one. The truth is that the two are very much connected. Perhaps more importantly, then, is what this means when it comes to your personal security. If the state or city in which you live is\u00a0a hotbed for cybercriminal activity, your chances of being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":18687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2985],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[4463,3695],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18675"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32367,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18675\/revisions\/32367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18675"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}