Fun and Games until you realize you just gave out the answers to your bank account security questions
Browsing through my timeline on Facebook, I see many of my friends answering personality quizzes or answering seemingly harmless questions.� Its social media, we�re supposed to interact, right?
Now stop and think for a minute, you know those security questions many secured websites ask you to answer to prove your identity.� I know my bank, my investment company, several utility company accounts all have me answer �security� questions.
I�ve never answered many of these social media questionnaires, not because I don�t want to be social, I am just cautious about what I put online for the world to see.� �Then I started noticing a lot of those quiz/discussion starters on Facebook were the same as many of the security questions I have answered to �secure� my accounts and personal data.
But it Seems So Harmless
What Street did you grow up on?� – Yep, both a security question and a fun little quiz on FB.
What was your first pet�s name�� – Ditto
What was your high school mascot?� Uh, OH!
So, it goes like this:
Security question for your bank account – Where did you meet your spouse?
The Facebook version usually makes it a more fun version, �If you had to get married (or eat dinner or live or work�.) where you first met your husband, where would you be getting married (or eat dinner or live or work�..)?� ��This is usually made even more fun with a cute or funny picture in the post.
So, now think back, how many of these quizzes or questions have you answered on social media?� How many answers to your security questions for your important accounts have you revealed?
Interestingly enough, this morning I noticed a friend answer a question about where she met her husband and I immediately thought of the same question on one of my accounts.� Then I saw Brian Krebs had written a great blog on this, you can read it here:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/04/dont-give-away-historic-details-about-yourself/
Be careful online.
