We often write articles about Online Security, because of the evolving changes in the web standards.

Most internet users will be familiar with the concept of security questions.

These are secret phrases, used by online services, especially email services, to help users to recover access to an account, in case of forgotten passwords.

Users can choose one such question for their account, and provide their own answer, any answer to it.  The answer can be easy to remember or even totally irrelevant to the question. But just how secure are security questions?

The folks at Google, conducted a research on this. The Mountain View company says it analyzed millions [...]