SecurityRatty: Gov. Palin, Yahoo! Email and SecurityA Call To Action?

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Gov. Palin, Yahoo! Email and SecurityA Call To Action?

2008-09-30 00:00:00 by Satchit Dokras in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast

The McCain-Palin campaign has offered a rather muted response to the Yahoo! email account breach of Gov. Palin, and so far, the grand jury has opted not to indict the hacker. Is this the end to this sordid tale? Not quite. I believe that the average citizen has been left with a myriad of questions as to the security in as basic a utility as free email.

What’s going on?

“Rubico”, as the hacker called himself, used an automated password recovery tool where he was asked fairly simple questions to identify himself as Gov. Palin [birthday, zip code, etc.]. Rubico found answers to these within 45 minutes on Google and Wikipedia! Wow! Is it really that easy to hack into email or messaging services that the common person uses globally?...