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Caution: Easiest Hacker Trick in The Book

Never mind creating a password with at least eight characters, two of which are numbers, one of which is a capital letter, and one of which is a symbol like (*&^%$). The easiest way for a hacker to weasel into your account is likely the Forgot your password? link."Forgot your password?" feature is as old as the Internet, providing businesses and site owners a simple way to let a user reset a forgotten password. It requires to verify the credentials by asking a few personal questions that only the rightful user should know.For years the archetypical question was, of course, the "Mother's maiden name" challenge. In recent years, additional challenges have emerged, such as asking the street you grew up on, your favorite pet, and grandparents' first names.According to a researcher at PARC,...