If the phone is lost, the owner needs to sign out of the app for security beyond the phone's log-in code.

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Its flagship software solution, the QRadar Security Intelligence Platform, integrates various types of technologies like log management, network behavior analytics and event management.

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Many of the world's banks require customers to log in to online banking by using a small security device to generate a one-off password.

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While considerably more secure than typical static username and password log-in systems, many people find using security tokens cumbersome given the need to keep it with them in order to use online banking.

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"To the best of our knowledge, this is not a hack of Monster's security, rather, legitimate customer credentials are being used to log in to the database, " said Patrick Manzo, vice president of compliance and fraud prevention at Monster.

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As a security precaution, however, it is requiring all users to reset their passwords when they log in.

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We give out our social security numbers when we forget our charge cards while shopping, and use supermarket loyalty cards that log our buying habits into giant data warehouses.

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"Every day, a growing number of people log in to Twitter, " Jim O'Leary, of the site's security team, said in a blog post.

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The final layers of security include a pair of authentication certificates residing on the handsets, as well as requiring users to log-in with a password before they can use the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) server.

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