Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset (2012)

Re:Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secur... by wwweston on Friday February 01, 2019 @01:33AM (#19052101)

This is fairly effective until the day comes when you use this method on a system that tries to be even nicer about password recovery... and presents your answers in a multiple choice context.

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Re:Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secur... by bagels on Friday February 01, 2019 @02:25AM (#19052304)

What site is doing this, giving your password away?

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Re:Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secur... by dmd on Saturday February 02, 2019 @03:17PM (#19065420)

TransUnion, for one.

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Re:Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secur... by nulbyte on Sunday February 03, 2019 @10:04PM (#19073672)

Is TransUnion doing this with fill-in-the-blank security questions? Or are you referring to indetity verification questions base on credit report data?

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