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Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'online banking'


Risks of Consolidation

Consolidating account information in a single service is appealing - log into one place and get a snap shot of your financial state. Sounds good in theory, but the practice went wrong for Rudder, a free personal financial service....

Tips for Online Banking Security

A couple of quick tips for improving online banking security....

Perfect Storm for Online Banking Fraud

Economic downturn, bank mergers, and consumers shifting accounts around looking for the best deal is an ideal situation for phishers....

RSA Research on Nearly Invisible Crimeware

Think the economic news is bad, check out this post from RSA on the long running, highly successful Sinowal Trojan which has stolen up to 300,000 sets of online banking credentials....

Browser Malware Threatens Online Banking

Trojans and keyloggers aren't working just at the operating system level - the browser can now be used to capture banking details....

Is New Anti-Keylogger Practical?

From the "that which does not drive me crazy makes me more secure" department we have word of a new anti-keylogging program that uses, among other things, a visual keyboard in which the characters are deleted and redrawn several times...

Design Flaws Hamper Online Banking Security

Researchers at the University of Michigan are reporting that 75% of 214 online banking sites had significant design flaws. At first this did not sound surprising, assuming the design flaws were minor tradeoffs between security and usability but that wasn't...

Paternalism Not Needed in Online Banking

So who is responsible for online banking security, especially when a bank offers free to the customer security software? Are we so collectively naive that we would think a single piece of software will secure transactions in spite of other...

Online Bank Offers Software to Secure Transactions but What About Support?

Installing software is easy. Getting it to work correctly is hard. Keeping it working correctly is even harder. Neither of the last two facts are deterring ING, an online bank, from offering software to create a secure environment for online...

Banks Suffering More Losses due to Online Fraud

The Security Fix provides a number of interesting details found in the leaked Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Technology Incident Report. For instance, computer fraud related losses averaged $29,630 in 2007, almost three times the 2006 level; and there are case...

Paper Trails Matter

I commented this morning on lack of a paper trail when I voted in Virginia yesterday. Then I thought of all the ATM receipts that are left near the bank machines - maybe I'm making too much of this. Now,...

Banking Trojan Man-in-the-Middle Attack

Symantec has reported on a banking Trojan that intercepts bank transaction details before they are encrypted and changes destination accounts for transfers to an attacker's account. The Trojan uses a configuration file with the domains of over 400 banks in...

Trojan Targets Commercial Bank Accounts

SecureWorks has made public information about a botnet that is behind a man-in-the-middle attack on commercial banking customers. According to NeworkWorld, the attack is hitting customers is the US, UK, Spain and Italy. The attack uses a Trojan spread by...

Online Theft Caught in Low-Tech Way

$449,000 was stolen from a bank account belonging to the city of Carson, California according to ComputerWorld The city treasurer, Karen Avilla, detected the theft during here daily check of city accounts. 90% of the stolen funds have been traced...

Phishing, Brandjacking and Little Progress on User Awareness

A recent survey by MarkMontior finds phishing and kiting (quickly registering and dropping domain names similar to those of legitimate sites) is not suprisingly on the rise. The study tracked the worlds top 25 brands along with others from eight...

VA Tech Tragedy Exploited by Malware Writers

After the past several days in Blacksburg I guess I should have realized there are no depths too low for some but I didn't see this one coming. The Register and the SANS Institutes are reporting attackers are exploiting the...

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