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Recently, one of my friend‘s face book profile was hacked. You know why...? His security question was-“What is your name..?” Stupid enough right..?   Most of our social networking sites drain out a significant amount of money, computing capabilities and other resources for enabling security. But I strongly believe that Human is the weakest part of security and my conviction grows stronger day by day. Many users maintain weak security questions. On an average 1 out of every 10 Facebook accounts are hackable just because of this vulnerability.  

Any online account has two elements – a login ID and a password. Login ID help the server to identify the account and the password helps the server to make sure that it’s providing access to the right guy. Maintaining a strong password (About Strong passwords, I’ll post soon) is essential for security. Cracking a strong password by guessing is as hopeless like searching for a needle in a haystack. But for an attacker there is an easy alternative – ‘The Security Question’.

The security question is a question which if answered by someone they could get access to an account either permanently or atleast temporarily. Maintaining a good security question is a million times as important as maintaining a good password! This is because; always an attacker has better chances of guessing an answer than an arbitrary password. Most often people have security questions like – “What’s my Phone number” or “What’s my Living Place” and most often such information are publicly visible on their profile’s. In that case even kid’s won’t find a difficulty in hacking u down! Well to maintain a good security question follow these tricks :