Think Of A Number… Any Number…

Just make sure you can’t find it on the Internet, or rather that it can’t be associated with you. Oh, and by the way, make sure other questions you use to validate who you are, are not on the Internet either. Sarah Palin had her email account broken into and the contents spread across the unforgiving web. The hack was allegedly done by either guessing the password resetting the password and in order to reset the password another piece of information was required, in this case where she had met her husband… information that could be found on the web.

Most banks rely on things like your Mother’s maiden name as a proof of identity, but now you can easily find that on the web. In an age where people like to tell all on social networking sites from favourite films to names of first pets, it seems no ’secret’ fact is a secret any more - unless you want it to be. So when it comes to deciding on security questions, have a thought for what is already out there and readily found.

September 24, 2008 | Filed Under security 

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