Catching up with my wife last night brought up an interesting trend. I assume that these have been circulated for sometime, but I never paid much attention. Games like name your first car and post pictures of them. At first glance, that doesn’t seem too bad. Maybe just a fun way of passing the time, but it is also one of the main security questions for banks and other secure properties. Questions like “What is the make of your first car?” or “What was the color of your first car?” are pretty prevalent in consumer facing secured systems.
I know a lot of my friends and family take part in these and it is hard to explain to them what are the risks and how to decipher the motives. I am sure that most of these are innocent, but we have to think about security nowadays with most things that we do online. I can only lead them to the water, it is up to them what these once they are there.