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| Thread ID: 56097 | 2005-03-27 09:13:00 | TV One Sunday on Interenet Banking Hacking | pctek (84) | Press F1 |
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| 338459 | 2005-03-27 12:16:00 | It was envisioned that the program would not tell a true story and what is new from the money driven media of today. I too have seen many a PC with a firewall letting everything past because some twit has allowed it.pressf1.pcworld.co.nz It doesn't matter how many times you tell them if it doesn't need to don't allow it. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 338460 | 2005-03-27 21:50:00 | because some twit has allowed it. Some of these twits are so called computer servicemen. My mother had a tech install a firewall and was then told to accept everything that wanted access. |
wotz (335) | ||
| 338461 | 2005-03-28 00:04:00 | Using Internet Cafe's for accessing your webmail and banking while on holiday can be something hard to avoid doing. I know I have done this, but protected myself as best as I could by removing all the internet history and cache off the machine when finished and also changed all my passwords when I got home. I also only used internet cafe's which looked more professionally run and took with me their business card as contact details. Doesn't stop a keylogger grabbing what they could and doing damage before I could change my passwords. So many internet cafe's are setup and poorly administrated. Users are logged on as Admin by default, you can access their web interface of their router which still has default passwords on it and you can install programs on the computers. A decent setup would be that each computer is automatically re-imaged each day from an image kept secured on a separate server. This image is also kept up to date with security patches as soon as they are released. Another option would be for internet cafe's to run Linux on their machines. If the machine is only used by customers to surf the internet, check their emails and use IM programs, clicking an icon on a desktop to launch that application isn't hard to do. The desktop can be customised so that is the only functions available to them. Less likely that someone could interfere with the security of the machine and install anything dodgy. But you would need cafe's owners comfortable with using Linux first for that to be a viable option. It would be nice to see a rating given to internet cafe owners similar to the food hygiene standards that food preparation shops need to display. If a shop demonstated that they could meet set levels of security standards, then they could display that rating which could give some sense of security to its customers. Doesn't mean it will be infailable tho. Maybe this is all just daydreaming. None of this of course adresses home users, as they are purely responsible for the use and security of their machines. Can't count on common sense ruling as many have no idea the importance of keeping their machine secure or even how you would go about doing this. Users will keep clicking on dodgy links sent in emails and can be very naive about the internet unfortunately. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 338462 | 2005-03-28 01:20:00 | Would taking a disc with a list of words/numbers in a text file (one or a combination of which would be a password) and inserting it into an internet cafe's computer and using copy/paste to enter passwords etc, be a safer way of accessing bank account if the need arose. Would this get round the risk of someone getting your passwords with a key logger? | craigb (4884) | ||
| 338463 | 2005-03-28 01:38:00 | Would taking a disc with a list of words/numbers in a text file (one or a combination of which would be a password) and inserting it into an internet cafe's computer and using copy/paste to enter passwords etc, be a safer way of accessing bank account if the need arose. Would this get round the risk of someone getting your passwords with a key logger? Probly intill you loose the disk or leave it in the internet cafe |
sambaird (47) | ||
| 338464 | 2005-03-28 01:50:00 | unfortunatly i was busy working and missed the show. however it sounds like i didn't miss anything as it was the predicted whitewash bull as per normal. craigb....that might get around a key logger but thats only one way of getting your banking details. other malicious software can grab any text entered and/or the whole page or even route it through someone else. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 338465 | 2005-03-28 21:27:00 | Criagb, Some keyloggers also take screenshots, and record your copy and paste items. Expensive keyloggers have more functions and while cheaper ones just simply record keystrokes |
mister harbies (5607) | ||
| 338466 | 2005-03-29 00:05:00 | Another idea I've heard bandied around - you have to take a driver's licence test before you drive a card, why not some sort of basic computer security test, administered by the bank, before you're allowed to use internet banking. The cost of doing it would be tiny, especially if they get a cut off their insurance for doing it. (I was going to suggest the security test before you're allowed on the internet, but that might be going a tad far) |
Rugrats (6953) | ||
| 338467 | 2005-03-29 00:13:00 | TV needs to have a Personal Computer TV show. It could be sponsored by a leading retailer and it could show tips. The nearest PC TV show we have is a "GamerTV". Security is never mentioned there. | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 338468 | 2005-03-29 00:23:00 | TV needs to have a Personal Computer TV show. It could be sponsored by a leading retailer and it could show tips. The nearest PC TV show we have is a "GamerTV". Security is never mentioned there. Yea but would the people that realy need to see it actualy watch it |
sambaird (47) | ||
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