'Secret' Questions Leave Accounts Vulnerable

What's your secret question? Your mother's maiden name? Your first pet? For many people, facts like these are all that protect their email and other accounts should they forget their password. Now a new study by researchers at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Wash. reveals just how easy the answers of such security questions are for other people to guess. Acquaintances of 32 Web mail users – people with whom they would not normally share their login details – were asked to try and guess the... Full Story