[Clips] Banks Seek Better Online-Security Tools

[Steven M. Bellovin]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.60.0512051902360.31631 at xeon44.aei.mpg.de>, Jonathan Thor
nburg writes:
>I would never use online banking, and I advise all my friends and
>colleagues (particularly those who _aren't_ computer-security-geeks)
>to avoid it.
>

I do use it -- but never from a Windows machine.  The OS I use is 
probably better, but it's *definitely* a much less attractive target 
for malware writers.

Problems?  I did have my credit card number stolen, but almost 
certainly not that way.  The bank believes it was a random card number 
generator.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb



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