Protect yourselves

Last week Blogger was down for a while.  I ran across this brief feature on Yahoo! Finance that was posted by Consumer Reports that covers "How to Protect Yourself."

Here is an outline of topics it briefly covers.  Click on the link at the bottom for more details.

At Home

• Making a break-in too easy
• Leaving your garage door open
• Obscuring your house
• Leaving valuables in sight
• Advertising a vacation
• Being carefree with keys
• Tossing prescription bottles
• Thinking a gun is your best defense

With Your Electronics

• Using lazy passwords
• Falling for phishing
• Running outdated software

For Your Personal Finances

• Banking from a public computer
• Using unfamiliar ATMs
• Dropping your guard at gas pumps
• Ignoring your credit or debit cards
• Abandoning your receipts
• Trashing your bills

6 Ways to Stay Safer

• Watch out for imposters
• Learn to parallel park
• Hide the stuff in your car
• Change your PIN
• Keep a financial inventory
• Change your Wi-Fi password

Click here for the article and more details
Click here to go to ConsumerReports. org