How do YOU prevent a Sarah Palin style hack on your accounts?
WallBaker asked:
Some dweeb hacked into Sarah Palin’s account by resetting her password using information about her like her high school, grade school, etc. I realized that all my financial access was at risk to the same thing. I instituted a defense but wondered if anyone had given any thought to how to deal with security password reset questions like “what is your hometown”?
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Some dweeb hacked into Sarah Palin’s account by resetting her password using information about her like her high school, grade school, etc. I realized that all my financial access was at risk to the same thing. I instituted a defense but wondered if anyone had given any thought to how to deal with security password reset questions like “what is your hometown”?
2012 Obama
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Well, the simplest answer I can think of is to keep a notebook with the FALSE answers you give to these ’social engineering’ questions.
e.g. “What is your Mother’s maiden name?” real answer would be Robertson, but I put in Johnson. Note it in a book and, obviously keep the book safe.
Inconvenient when it asks these questions due to you trying to access your account from a ‘foreign’ computer, but that’s the nature of security.
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When you are using security password, don’t use common one
use the one you created, if there is an option for that.
like ‘what is your home town’ you are at risk if you answer the real home town, the answer only you knows it, so just answer your home town is “Under The Seven Seas” or create the answer by your self like “What Inside My Computer” and you can answer what ever you want or the answer like this “My Mother In-Law”
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These ‘Security Questions’ can be circumvented by creating a non-vocabulary type of alphanumeric passphrase in it’s own right:
for instance; rather than City of birth’ = Cleveland; have City of birth = 9tB8vv$tt2; which is actually a far more secure method of confounding any hackers.
But, you must write down these answers (not in the computer) in a ‘unit handbook’.