Jun 8, 2019
This week’s theme is protecting yourself and your wallet online. Remember the good old days where your information security was as simple as keeping your file drawer locked and shredding your bank statements. My goodness, do things change!
I probably don’t need to convince you too much of how important it is, yet most of us are pretty lax in our cybersecurity protection practices. Since your odds of being a victim to hackers is frighteningly high, I’m sharing with you some important ways that you can protect yourself online.
One of the main areas where people tend to be lax in their cybersecurity practices is on social media. So today, I want you to assume you have a rogue facebook friend who is really a shameless hacker. Think about that person every time you post on social media.
Hackers can use information on facebook to guess commonly used passwords, like your child’s name. They can see when you’re on vacation and break into your home while you’re gone. They can use information you share about your favorite sports team to correctly answer challenge questions on your online logins.
In addition to limiting the information you share online, your personal security is also a great excuse to scale back your social friends list and only share information with a select group of friends and family.
That’s it for today. Tomorrow, we’re going to recap the week and I’m going to give you a little preview of next week’s theme.
My name is Ashley Micciche and this is the One Minute Retirement Tip.
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