My Security Planet » Schneier on Security » Secret Questions

Feeds

13616 items (0 unread) in 75 feeds

• Jeremy Zawodny's blog
• Mozilla Webdev
• Transcendental Technical Travails
• Ian Bicking: a blog
• Hackosis

WebSecurity

• Watchfire Application Security Insider
• BlogSecurity
• sirdarckcat
• Google Online Security Blog
• CGISecurity.com: Your Web Site and Application Security Resource
• Switch/Twitch
• mybeNi websecurity
• cat slave diary
• SecuriTeam Blogs
• Curiouser and Curiouser
• Alex's Corner
• Billy (BK) Rios
• Chris Shiflett
• christian's weblog
• funkatron.com
• GNUCITIZEN
• The Spanner
• hackademix.net
• Ruby on Rails Security Project
• It's a shampoo world anyway
• Web Security Blog
• ha.ckers.org web application security lab
• Yet Another Infosec Blog
• PHP Security Blog
• Security Thoughts
• Sunnet Beskerming Security Advisories
• Disenchant's Blog
• Sylvan von Stuppe
• Larholm.com
• The Turkey Curse
• Jeremiah Grossman
• Anurag Agarwal - Application Security Evangelist
• Ivan Ristic
• deep inside | security & tools
• omg.wtf.bbq.
• BlueHat Security Briefings
• Tactical Web Application Security
• .:Computer Defense:.

Security

• tssci security
• Plynt Penetration Testing Blog
• Michael Howard's Web Log
• Security Retentive
• BindShell.Net
• Dominic White's .tHE pRODUCT
• SecurityFocus News
• Justice League
• Schneier on Security
• Rational Survivability
• terminal23
• 1 Raindrop
• hiredhacker.com
• Matasano Chargen
• Security Vulnerability Research & Defense
• Michael on Security - Musings on Information Security
• Fortify blog
• The Art of Software Security Assessment
• GDS Security Blog
• Vodun.org
• Robert Penz Blog
• Mark Curphey - SecurityBuddha.com
• Liminal states
• Security Ripcord
• ModSecurity Blog
• IBM Internet Security Systems Frequency X Blog
• Suspekt...
• extern blog SensePost;
• Zero in a bit

SEO

• SEO BlackHat: Black Hat SEO Blog
• busin3ss.name

Tools

• Opensourcetesting.org News

Schneier on Security

• 

  Secret Questions

  Posted: May 25th, 2009, 10:56am CDT

  Tags:    [edit]

  In 2004, I wrote about the prevalence of secret questions as backup passwords. The problem is that the answers to these "secret questions" are often much easier to guess than random passwords. Mother's maiden name isn't very secret. Name of first pet, name of favorite teacher: there are some common names. Favorite color: I could probably guess that in no...