Security question
A security question is an authentication method that is often used as an additional layer of security and to recover forgotten passwords . It's a shared secret .
A typical security question is, for example, "What is your mother's maiden name?"
It is criticized that the facts queried in security questions are usually publicly available and can therefore be found out more easily by hackers than passwords. Some users are aware of this and deliberately invent wrong answers, which they then often forget, thus reducing the concept of the security question to absurdity.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josh Levin: In What City Did You Honeymoon? And other monstrously stupid bank security questions . Slate. January 29, 2008. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ^ "The Curse of the Secret Question" . Retrieved February 12, 2011.