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Study Criticises UK Banking Web Sites
News Many UK banking Web sites are failing in terms of performance with poor accessibility, HTML coding errors and slow response times greeting visitors, according to a new study. The best of the 32 sites were Birmingham Midshires and The Co-operative...
[March 31, 2004, 11:55]
Online Banking: Web Services May Create Vulnerabilities
News A grand plan, but one with a major Achilles' heel for online banking and other secure transactions. Their concerns are well-founded: security experts say that such services may present some of the weakest links among the various technologies used...
[May 6, 2002, 7:32]
Phishermen Release DIY Con Kits
News The emergence of these 'build your own phish' kits means that anyone can now mimic bona fide banking Web sites and convince customers to disclose sensitive information such as passwords," said Graham Cluley.
[August 19, 2004, 17:35]
Password-stealing Trojan Cut Off At Source
News An attempt to pinch user information from banking sites using a malicious pop-up program has been nipped in the bud, says Symantec. As a result, Hartman said the company did not receive any reports of information theft from its Asian customers...
[July 7, 2004, 9:10]
Trojan Logs E-banking Habits
News The company said that once installed, the Trojan waits for users to visit their online banking Web sites, captures passwords and takes screenshots of the session. Security experts say they have discovered a Trojan horse that records e-banking user...
[November 11, 2004, 13:45]
Egg.com Cracks Popularity Poll
News Egg is the only pure-Internet UK banking venture to feature in the top ten listing of financial Web sites. The next most popular Internet banking sites are Barclays.co.uk with 445,500 visitors and nationwide.co.uk with some 306,000 visitors.
[July 19, 2000, 10:00]
Protection Offered Against ID Theft Keylogger
News Srv.SSA-KeyLogger secretly steals data from users' Internet sessions, including logins and passwords from online banking sessions, and Web sites such as eBay and PayPal which use HTML forms to collect personal information.
[August 11, 2005, 15:40]
RSA Looks To Drown Phishers In Data Flood
News Unfortunately for the phishers, one of the techniques Cyota is using to help protect its banking customers is to pump such fraudulent Web sites with so many fake entries that the genuine details are harder to find, according to Naftali Bennett...
[March 31, 2006, 9:55]
DeepNet 1.3 Browser To Contain Anti-phishing Features
News Last week a Trojan horse was found that can steal e-banking details when users log into legitimate banking sites. It will try to automatically detect scam Web sites, and if it decides it is a scam, it will warn the user.
[November 22, 2004, 12:40]
Hackers Wreak Havoc On Aussie Banks
News According to Ghosh, the problem that exists for e-commerce and Internet banking Web sites is that the security breach occurs on the end-user's computer. The tragedy of this situation is that people will stop using the Commonwealth Bank's Internet...
[July 19, 2001, 10:26]
Phishing Attacks Soar As More Brands Are Targeted
News Most phishing sites spoof global ecommerce and banking institutions.eBay is often spoofed, for obvious reasons. Although phishing is increasingly in the news, online banking is increasing in popularity.
[January 18, 2006, 16:10]
Web Security Padlocks To Be Reinforced
News The lock icon was designed to assure consumers that online transactions, such as banking and shopping, are protected. Corillian, which provides.For more, click here.online banking technology to more than 100 banks, including
[December 13, 2005, 10:15]
Banks Dismissive Of 'phishing' Losses
News The debate over the threat posed by email online banking scams or "phishing attacks" is heating up, with security experts accusing banks of ignoring danger signs. However, Australia's main banking industry body, the Australian Bankers' Association...
[March 11, 2004, 8:15]
Microsoft May Be Scoring Own Goal With IE Plans
News Less than a month later, UK online and telephone bank First Direct, a subsidiary of HSBC, sent an email to its 600,000 online banking customers, telling them to ensure that they had downloaded the latest version of Internet Explorer before 30 June.
[June 30, 2003, 9:24]
Sun Releases Liberty-enabled Software
News Wells Fargo has been using the test version to handle authentication on several parts of its online banking site, Barco said. Liberty makes sure a customer signed on to the online banking system, for example, can get to the bill payment system or...
[January 13, 2003, 7:50]
Aging Drives Internet Growth
News Reports from banks that they are seeing a surge in people in the 50-plus age group using online banking are supported by this survey, which reported that "banks have benefited greatly from the maturing of the Australian online population".
[September 22, 2003, 16:10]
'One In Four' Touched By ID Theft
News found that 33 percent of adults don't take any precautions to beat the ID thieves, while 18 percent shred their documents but still use a single password for all online banking; a similar number don’t shred documents but make use of several...
[March 4, 2005, 11:30]
Money Proves Popular On The Web
News According to Internet research group MMXI Europe, banking, insurance and investing have overtaken in popularity the more traditional news, travel and sports sites. MMXI believes that the banking sector is becoming one of the most competitive in the...
[September 25, 2000, 14:49]
Microsoft To Open Passport To Competition
News The company next year plans to offer content, shopping, banking, entertainment and other services through a variety of devices--including cell phones, PCs and handhelds--linked to HailStorm, which relies on Microsoft's Passport to authenticate users.
[September 20, 2001, 13:10]
TraceAssure
Downloads Securely access Internet Banking, ECommerce Sites and other Web Apps that require personal information. Ground breaking technology authenticates the sites you visit to insure that your personal and private information does not end up in the wrong...
[March 10, 2006, 11:16]
