What are the most common ways people compromise their privacy online?

Exposing too much personal information online

Cyber criminals mine the internet for your personal information. They use it to determine your security question answers on your accounts, to impersonate you when calling agencies you have accounts with and to create phishing emails that contain content related to your life. To thwart cyber criminals:

• Set your social media privacy settings to the highest level
• Don’t accept contact requests from people you do not know
• Limit what information you enter into websites as much as possible
• Don’t use information that can easily be found on the Internet for security questions or in your passwords

Not sure how much of your personal information can be found online? Google yourself or better yet have a friend google you. You might be horrified to see what they find.

Sending a regrettable email

We have all been there, we have clicked send and went…”Oh no!!”. Worse yet, we have clicked send and found out days later we have just started Armageddon. How do you avoid sending the regrettable email?

Want a check list to print out and post by your computer? Check out,  Avoid the regrettable email.