Congress told Breaches, Sharing Spell End of Authentication by What We Know

ronjor · Dec 3, 2017

December 2, 2017 12:53 by Paul

The theft and re-use of data stolen from e-commerce and social media firms spells the end of knowledge based authentication using passwords or other seemingly obscure information like a mother’s maiden name or the name of an elementary school, experts told a Congressional Committee on Thursday. To replace them, companies will have to invest in new authentication tools that cannot simply be mined from troves of public or stolen and re-circulated personal data.
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RockLobster · Dec 3, 2017

The smart ones never put the real answer to those security questions in the first place.

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Congress told Breaches, Sharing Spell End of Authentication by What We Know

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