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Page 3 of 3 p { text-indent:0px; padding-bottom:10px; } 3. How does the number of attempts to access information (or other action) using the SSN compare to the number of attempts to guess a 6-digit password or pin? This is where the study provides a very revealing statistic; overall an entire SSN can be discovered in less than 1,000 attempts, comparable to a 3-digit PIN, which is generally accepted by information security experts and scholars as being highly unsecure. ... Read More
Thursday, 23 July 2009 Article Index We Can Guess Your Social Security Number SSNs as Customer and Employee IDs Harder Than a PIN? Page 2 of 3 p { text-indent:0px; padding-bottom:10px; } SSNs as Customer and Employee IDs Now consider that, ever since customer IDs and employee IDs were necessary to be used within US organizations to quickly and easily uniquely identify individuals, SSNs were chosen since they 1) already existed for virtually everyone, and 2) were rea... Read More
Page 1 of 3 p { text-indent:0px; padding-bottom:10px; } By Rebecca Herold Following the release of the CMU SSN report, I've had some very interesting discussions with privacy and information security folks, and I've been pretty amazed at some of the reactions to the study. Yes, probably many of us in information security and privacy professions have known for a very long time that SSNs could probably be guessed because of the way in which they are constructed using sim... Read More
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