How Safe Is Your Mobile? | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
We are at an interesting tipping point in terms of Internet access. We have just passed the point where there are more mobile devices on ...

 

Secret knowledge stored in the human memory remains the most widely used means of human-computer authentication.

 

Think of it as something you know, in contrast to biometrics (something you are) or hardware tokens (something you have). If that secret is to be something as simple as a four digit PIN, then it really is vital that it is as random as possible.

 

So, choose a PIN that cannot be easily related to you, and certainly not something that you might easily pick up from information in your wallet.

 

===> Better still, consider one of the newer forms of securing your mobile device and abandon those old-fashioned PINs!!! <===