>In light of Sony’s security breach last week it’s clear that Internet security is a major issue and work clearly needs to be done, and done quickly, on implementing new web security standards, for instance the authentication of email which people have been talking about for years.  Not to mention the fairly obvious increase that’s [...]

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I have been working for one of the biggest financial organizations in Germany. One of our jobs was to deal with customers who had fallen pray to phishing and other malicious attacks. The attacks in the beginning were not sophisticated at all including emails with errors, no personal information and even some from other organizations [...]

Categories: Security

I don´t know a single large bank that does not offer its customers a way to use a website to do their transactions. There is unfortunatly no single standard set for bank websites and many companies tend to misjudge the importance of a secure website. The Secure Web Bank website did take a look at websites from US, Canadian and European institutes and check wether those provided a SSL Login page and Two Factor Auth for their customers.

Categories: Security