Yahoo Accounts Are Easy to Hijack

Tuesday, March 19th, 2019 (No comments yet)

There have been some high profile hacks of Sarah Palin and Grady Sizemore and the best defense is to not use real information when answering challenge questions.

Just make a Privacy Alias and use it for places that want your personal information, but don't really need it. Of course, if you use an encrypted file to store passwords, you don't have to make an alias at all. You can just store completely new made up challenge answers for each site.

Tags: Account Hijacking, Challenge Questions, Internet, Yahoo

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