Your Security Resource

Are you too public with your private information?

To get the free e-newsletter from your favorite travel website, they want you to answer a few questions and give your email address. You:

	Provide all the information requested
	Only fill in the required fields
	Decide not to get the newsletter

How do you store your user names and passwords?

	I keep them in my head
	I store them on my PDA so I have access to them at all times
	I keep the slip of paper hidden in a desk drawer

Your Social Security number is:

	Information that identity thieves use to steal a person's identity
	My favorite password for my eBay account
	A good piece of information to keep in my wallet

You receive an email that seems to be from PayPal asking you to reset your account. You:

	Click on the link inside the email
	Reply to the email, asking for verification that the sender is really PayPal
	Call PayPal's customer service to check the status of your account

A new credit card arrives in the mail -- but you never applied for it. You:

	Call the credit card company and close the account
	Contact the three credit reporting agencies and have a fraud alert put on your account
	Look in the phone book to see if there's someone else with your name in your town

Your new cell phone is able to store data. The first thing you do is:

	Enter your ATM PIN number
	Set up a password to protect any data you plan to enter
	Nothing. You don't want your private data in the wrong hands if your phone is lost or stolen

A telemarketer calls and asks you to participate in a short survey. You:

	Answer every question. Phone surveys are anonymous
	Hang up. You have no idea who the caller truly is
	Answer all questions except those that reveal private information, such as your birth date or social security number

Your teenager wants to set up a MySpace page. You tell her:

	Your teenager wants to set up a MySpace page. You tell her:
	OK. Social networking is the wave of the future
	No way. It's not safe to post pictures and personal data on the Internet

	Yes
	No