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Published on Friday, May 22, 2015 15:36
Written by Writing Communicate
Google’s security team announced on Thursday, 21, a study on the security questions needed to retrieve the user access to online accounts. “What’s the name of your first pet?”, “What is your favorite food?”, “What is the middle name of his mother?” are some of the most common examples. According to the company, the mechanism is not as reliable as you think.
Click the photo to access the infographic produced by Google (Photo: Playback) Engineers Elie Bursztein and Illan Caron, who conducted the study, analyzed hundreds of millions of security questions and found the responses are, in most cases, unsafe or difficult to remember, which gives little assurance to users. The preferred choice is “In what city were you born?”. In 10 attempts, the chance of success was 6.9%.
Hackers have nearly 20% chance to hit, the first guess, favorite food when done in English. This is because the percentage choosing “pizza” for an answer. Another aggravating point is that at least 37% of internet users provide false combinations, hoping to hinder the entry of an intruder or facilitate his life.
The recommendation is that the sites start to adopt other methods to ensure the security of accounts, such as authentication made by SMS by sending unlock codes and adding secondary emails as a mechanism for resetting passwords .
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