The Palin hack didn’t require any real skill. Instead, the hacker simply reset Palin’s password using her birthdate, ZIP code and information about where she met her spouse—the security question on her Yahoo account, which was answered (Wasilla High) by a simple Google search.
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Yes, you heard it here first: accounts with "security" question readily-answered by a determined researcher are not secure.
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Jeremy Dunck - 18th September 2008 23:48 - #