Keeping Your Logon & Banking Details Secure ?

[VHG]

I am looking for various suggestions on how to keep website logon details, and other "computer based" information, secure.

I am pretty clued up on computers, but just registered for online banking for the first time.

To complete the banking registration I now have an bank ID, a passcode, a registration number, two images that are displayed when I logon (for security reasons), plus three "personal" questions that I have to provide answers to (mothers name, first school, first job etc.).

I have written all this info down on a piece of paper, but now what do I do with it?

I don't want to make a Word file on my computer for security reasons, I don't want to keep the paper in my office in folder called banking (in case we are burgled).

So what do other people do to protect this (and other) similar information.

I know there are "password" programs that keep your passwords secret, but for this banking logon there is more than just a password.

We are all now using computers more and more for banking and so on, so most of us now have dozens and dozens of logons and passwords and answers to secret questions.

So any ideas welcome, perhaps we can all share how we keep this sort of information secure?

Does anyone use Trusteer Endpoint Protection ?

https://www.winhelp.us/trusteer-rapport.html

[grasscarp]

The ones that are answers to personal questions I just know the answers to and not written down. Likewise bank login details are only in my head. I rarely write down a log in but a couple for my mobile phone account and an eon are written in my diary and fairly innocuous even if someone found them.

[jno]

assuming your passwords are just a list of words and numbers, it's unlikely to matter if they're stolen, they won't mean anything to anyone. Have you got a lockable filing cabinet or something to keep them in?

[BlackadderV]

I don't know which bank you are with, but I have a bank ID which is saved on the web site (useless to anyone without further info), 1 memorable question and a six figure security number which is generated via a security key every time I log on. I have no problems.

[237SJ]

I`m afraid I have all of mine (apart from my main banking one as that info is all in my head) written in a book and shoved in a drawer. I have tried to write some of it in code ("ususal password" or "date of joining company" etc) but there are just so many that I would never remember them.

[Peter Pedant]

I have been cloned and so been slow to convert to internet banking
so slow as 'not'

at least I know a phishing email when I see one: to wit they all are

still on checkie-weckies which I scan before I send along with invoice and I honestly cant face changing

[Buenchico]

The average burglar isn't going to spend hours looking for every possible place that you might have written the information down (while not even being sure that you've actually done so). Simply write the information inside the cover of a book or somewhere similar - but remember not to donate that book to a charity shop!
;-)

[Apollo26]

I have a Excel spreadsheet with them all on, passworded so that only I can get into it. You can also do this with a Word document.

[ll_billym]

I personally use an text file that I then encrypt in a .zip file.

I know there is slight security risk when decrypting it for use as it's stored in plain text in a temporary file but I like that I can cope/paste the passwords etc into the sign-on forms when I use them.

[RATTER15]

I try to use as many numbers for my logon details etc, these are then easily disguised as telephone numbers on my phone contacts.

[BlackadderV]

As I said above, the only thing I have to remember is my father's middle name, and since it is the same as mine it's not too difficult. I thought all banks had gone over to this idea of a security key, obviously not.

[VHG]

>>>but remember not to donate that book to a charity shop!

Many years ago, when we switched from pound notes to pound coins, I went to the bank and got two brand new crisp unused one pound notes.

Unsure where to put them to keep them flat I slipped them inside a book.

But then I forgot they were there and years later tried to find them and could not remember the name of the book.

I have donated many books to charity shops since and they may well have gone in one of those donations.

I have still never found them.

[Baldric]

Sorry, But like I'm going to share, No Chance!

[anotheoldgit]

I can never understand my bank, although it gives one a chance of making up a password of a number of letters, numbers and symbols, it also requests a 4 letter pin number.

When one signs in they first ask you for three different letters of the four letter pin number, what's the point of that?

It makes this secret pin number almost recognisable except for one letter.

[SlackAlice]

My banking details for 2 banks are stored in my head.

All other log-in details are stored on a Wordpad file and placed in a password protected .rar file. I have one copy on my pc and another on my smartphone.

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