Are security questions terrible for account security?
Are security questions terrible for account security?
Explore the pitfalls of security questions and discover stronger alternatives to safeguard your online privacy.
The breach exposed the personal data of half a billion million users, including their names, email addresses, phone...
lol wat
That’s nearly eleventy thousand. Terrible breach.
That breach went to 11.
This is why I've generated random passphrases for every security question I've answered in the last decade, stored alongside 2FA data (not in my password manager).
The best part is you usually can't use special chars in security question fields, so I just max out the field length. This makes them functionally the same, and as secure, as any recovery code.
I also do this.
It wasn't fun however when one of the companies I transact with required me to answer one of the questions over the phone as a means of authentication.
I could tell the customer service guy was just as tired when I finally finished responding. :)
Why are we calling account backdoors “security questions”?
They question your security
Back in the day we would get people's emails from kingdom of loathing, add them on MSN messenger and get the answers to their emails secret questions.
We'd then reset the password get in their account take all their shit and set it all back.
just use them as secondary or tertiary passwords and use a password manager to generate a 512 character long password
Depends on the questions and how chatty you are about those topics in your life.