Facebook: Supposedly harmless comments on questions
With seemingly harmless questions, more and more people in social media try to get your data. When you Comment, you must therefore be careful especially.
- In order to obtain so-called "Engagement" on social media, many Marketing people on personal questions. These users can then reply to you and thus part of a discussion. These personal issues can be a large security risk for you.
- The questions themselves seem harmless and unobtrusive. Examples are: "What is the Name of your first house was an animal?", "How is your mother's first name?", "What was the first concert you've ever been?".
- Only Problem is that these are often security questions on other websites. Once an attacker has, therefore, ask their Email and answers to a few of these security, they are at once vulnerable.
- With this information, your passwords can be reset, personal Details read out and control of their Accounts over it. So be careful when you Answer these questions and you do not do this in case of doubt, prefer.
Seemingly harmless questions (image: Pixabay)
An answer, great effect
Careless Comment can cause a security risk other consequences. Because it is often tested by means of the comment function of the willingness of its data.
- Sometimes Posts are used just to test how much you give of price. If you publish personal information in a Post, you have done this, in all probability in the past.
- All you need to do to the attacker, then, is to browse their profile information and save them. You can give by Commenting on a note on your profile, valuable things could be.
- If you want to prevent your data to be abused, you should not comment on, accordingly, without hesitation but some caution on Facebook and co. caution.
Caution when Posting (image: Pixabay)
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