Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Secret questions 'make emails vulnerable to hacking'

Where did you go to school? What is your Brother's first name?

A new study in the US has revealed just how easy the answers of
such security questions are for other people to guess --
in fact these facts make life simple for hackers, the 'New Scientist' reported.

Researchers at Microsoft have based their findings on an analysis of an experiment involving 32 email users. An article on it has been published here:
Secret questions vulnerable

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