Banking Sites And The Popup
Here’s one of those moments when you wonder whether banks have yet got on online security. The Melbourne Age, reporting from the birthplace of phishing, reports today that customers of Australia’s...
View ArticlePhishing Takes Its Toll
Is phishing beginning to take its toll on banks? It’s been my belief for some time that this is, or would be, the case. Banks have seen the Internet as a cash cow and have been over-eager to milk it...
View ArticleBanks, Phishing And A Dereliction Of Responsibility
Online commerce suffers from one major flaw: It’s online. That means we need to use computers (or computer-like devices, such as cellphones). It means we need to use the Internet. Together this is a...
View ArticleThe Phishing War Escalates
The guys at Netcraft, a British security consultancy that has done a good job of tracking, exploring and warning about phishing, say they’ve come across the first case of cross site scripting being...
View ArticleA Glimpse Of The Internet Banking Future?
One bank in my town has stopped offering Internet banking, and suddenly I feel I can see the future post-phishing. Of course, the bank is not saying it’s abandoning Internet banking. Nor is it saying...
View ArticleInternet Banking And The Threat From Within
Saw a chilling presentation today from Fabrice A Marie of FMA-RMS at the Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005 conference in Jakarta. Fabrice talked about Hacking Intenet Banking Applications, something he...
View ArticlePhishing Pushes Banking To Impose Transfer Limits
Internet banking takes another knock with news from AP that Germany’s biggest retail bank Postbank has imposed an online transaction limit . Germany’s biggest retail bank, Postbank, said Monday it was...
View ArticlePhishers Force UK Banks To Delay Transfers
Another sign that phishing is taking its toll on the quality of service banks can offer online customers: The Times reports that UK banks are introducing delays in intra-bank payments to try to combat...
View ArticleBanks To Customers: You Have To Pay For Phishing
Good article in Australia’s BRW Magazine about phishing and banks. It makes some important points, not least that banks are still trying to talk down the problem while at the same time passing costs...
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Another Online Banking Hole
(Update: corrected a few things. You can’t see the person’s bank account number. But you can see anyone’s phone bill, whether or not they’re a customer of that bank.) — Here’s a hole in Internet...
View ArticlePhishing And The Future Of Banking
Could phishing kill off online banking? Probably not, but it’s likely to force greater regulation by central banks and others which will, reckon British-based Internet security consultants mi2g, mean...
View ArticlePhishers Raise The Bar
Phishers can now access banking websites that use an extra ‘keylog-proof’ security layer. For several months phishers — folk fooling you into giving up valuable passwords — have used keylogging...
View ArticleContestant For Worst Phisher Of The Year Award
Phishing carries on, but it seems to be attracting the dregs of the scamming world as well as its masters. Here’s one I just received which must be in line for Worst Phishing Scam Of The Year Award:...
View ArticlePhear Of Phishing Doesn’t Just Hit The Bankers
Beware The Fear. The blizzard of coverage about phishing (usually involving some awful pun) has done a lot to raise awareness about the problem, but is it enough? A survey by Insight Express for...
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