by Barbara J. Feldman
May 26, 2010
Srwright, a reader at Lifehacker.com submitted this tip for keeping your online accounts extra secure. Instead of answering standard security questions such as “What is your mother’s maiden name?” you can answer a secret alternative question that you create based on one of the words or phrases in the real question. For example, using the [...]
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by Barbara J. Feldman
July 28, 2009
In early July, a hacker comprised the email account of a Twitter employee, and stole some internal company documents. He did this by using the password reminder feature of Gmail. What can we learn from this? First, use unique, unusual passwords. Second, make sure the answers to your security questions are not easily guessed. Third, [...]
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