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by Erik Kangas, PhD, President
Posts Tagged ‘identity’
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
 Many companies, LuxSci included, recommend or require that users have one or more “Security Questions” and corresponding answers associated with their accounts. These questions are commonly used to:
- Verify a user’s identity if the user has forgotten his/her password, or
- Provide a second factor for logging into the service above and beyond the username and password
Because these questions are used to provide access to the service and identity verification, it is very important that questions and answers be well chosen.
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Tags: identity, password, secret question, security question, social engineering
Posted in LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, TechNotes
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
The situation: you send and receive email messages via many different email addresses (aka "you have multiple email personality syndrome") via a single login. I.e. email from several work and personal addresses are all forwarded to your main email address, so you get all your email in the same account. Very convenient, but…
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Tags: disclaimer, email personality, email program, email signature, identity, multiple personality, personality, signature, signature block, tagline, thunderbird, webmail, webmail signature
Posted in Business Solutions
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