When sharing with friends, family and colleagues on social media, check your photos carefully before you post them to make sure you aren’t sharing too much. Just ask the Hawaii Emergency Agency or the RAF how embarrassing it is to have sensitive information broadcast over the Internet.  I am choosing to ignore that fact that they used horrible judgement when it came to password storage and management, as nauseous as it makes me. Instead I want to focus on the fact that they failed to recognize the photos would be handing out their login credentials to anyone who can use the zoom feature on a browser.

Other photos found on the Internet have displayed phone lists with employee’s home phone numbers, accounting codes, employee id cards and passwords.

Before you post a photo online, take a really good look at it.  Zoom in on details. Make sure that there is nothing sensitive in the photo.  Look for contact lists, house numbers, license plate numbers, account numbers, bill statements, invoice statements, credit card statements or anything else you want to keep confidential.  Don’t count on the text being too small or out of focus  to read. With the right software, a hacker can make almost anything readable.