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Shortcomings of Knowledge Based Authentication

Gerry Gebel is a security expert at Burton Group .

What is your mother’s maiden name? Is that any way to protect your account?

Many of the websites you access utilise a technique known as knowledge based authentication (KBA) to help you reset a forgotten password. When you registered for a user ID, they asked you to answer a few questions like ‘who is your favourite …

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