How to keep hackers out of your email
October 14, 2008
About a month ago, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account was hacked by a college student. We benefit from her misfortune by learning how he did it and making sure someone can’t do the same with our email accounts.
According to news sources, he needed only three pieces of information to gain access:
- Palin’s birthdate,
- Palin’s zip code, and
- The answer to Palin’s self-selected security question on Yahoo – where she met her husband.
A simple Google search gave him the first two pieces of information and he guessed the last one pretty easily.
So what’s a mediator to do? Here are four ideas and links to more: [Read more]
