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Thread ID: 56097	2005-03-27 09:13:00	TV One Sunday on Interenet Banking Hacking	pctek (84)	Press F1

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
338479	2005-03-29 06:40:00	Start with a series which will teach people how to set the clock on a video tape recorder.	Graham L (2)
338480	2005-03-29 12:55:00	I wonder how many people (outside PF1) saw that and responded, "Firewall?? What's that???" Why its a part of your Car of course!! ;)	Chilling_Silence (9)
338481	2005-03-29 22:55:00	Start with a series which will teach people how to set the clock on a video tape recorder. since I noticed my video recorder gets hot, I unplug it when not in use. This seems to effect the clock. Can the clock be reset ? Pete	Organicpete (133)
338482	2005-03-30 02:21:00	No, the clock must forever show: 12/12/1999 ;-)	Chilling_Silence (9)
338483	2005-03-30 06:47:00	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. I have also found that on occasion while on holiday its unavoidable to use an Internet Cafe but I was thinking that perhaps the best way around it is to use telephone Banking instead. While it is possible that the phone line could be tapped, I feel it is a lot less likely that someone could be privy to the information over a phone line as compared to the wild and wooly Internet. For that matter perhaps we should use the phone in general rather than the internet even when at home.	symiggy (7597)
338484	2005-03-30 09:48:00	I want pigeon banking. You send your transaction by carrier pigeon and the pigeon is specially trained to eat the message if intercepted by a hacker's pigeon ...	Biggles (121)
338485	2005-03-30 10:04:00	Mrs Metla nearly Kung-Fu'd me when I went to walk into a Net Cafe while we were on holiday.....	Metla (12)
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