When security questions and password hints are required for your accounts, you might not be filling them out wisely. To best protect your account security, you shouldn’t be truthful in these fields.

Forgotten Gmail passwords prevent account access, but you can do a password recovery and reset, using several methods. Security questions are one layer of identity confirmation that Google uses, but ...

When creating a local Windows 11/10 Account, the administrator will be prompted to set up three security questions. This is important and required to make sure there ...

Choose to set up Windows 10 or 11 with a local account, and you're required to select three security questions to answer if you ever get locked out. Those questions include the typical ones, such as ...

An Apple ID is required to purchase media from the iTunes Store. Since debit cards, credit cards and bank accounts are often linked directly to an Apple ID account ...

Microsoft has enabled a feature in Windows 11/10 that requires the user to answer security questions if he wants to reset the local user account password. This ...

Online security questions — we have all seen them. We log in to a new bank account, social media site or online paid service, and there they are. We are required to ...

Security questions—the annoying shared secrets used as a secondary form of authentication—have been around forever and are used by just about everyone to deal with users who forget their password.