At LastPass, we often reiterate the need for randomly generated passwords in order to increase your online security. A feature that often gets overlooked are the security questions that your sites and services may have you fill out as you register.
In theory, security questions are slightly more obscure, but still personalized questions that you create answers for, that will later be of help if you need to "prove" your identity when recovering access to an account or contacting a customer support team. However, the questions can create a security loophole. On top of the increased risk, if you're using a password manager to store your passwords, there's no reason you should have to go through the recovery process.
That's why we recommend "generating" your answers to your security questions, or creating falsified answers that you can then securely store in LastPass for reference. This ensures that security questions cannot be used against you should someone try to gain unauthorized access to one of your accounts - this is how Sarah Palin's email was hacked, and how other individuals have fallen victim to violations of their personal privacy.
It's easy to get started with random security answers when you're registering for a new site. When you're presented with a question, simply click the LastPass icon in your browser and select the "generate a secure password" option. You can click the "advanced options" box to customize the characters, and even make the password pronounceable:
