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Re-activateLeave your family's passports in an obvious place at home, and today's burglars could sell them for $1,500 to $2,000 apiece on the black market, says Bob Portenier, one former burglar we spoke to for an upcoming special report on home security. And if it's a laptop they take? The personal information you store on it is a boon for ID thieves.
Your front door is only one potential entry point, but for many would-be burglars, it's the method of choice. A good lock can thwart them. The new video, Inside our labs: Testing door locks, is a rundown of some of the ways we test single-cylinder dead-bolt locks. The tests range—in terms of avoiding the neighbors attention—from quietly picking the lock to kicking it in outright or pounding it off with a sledgehammer.
The home-security package, which will be online and on newsstands in early May, will also include tips for protecting your car, your finances and your computer data.
—Ed Perratore
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