[Clips] Banks Seek Better Online-Security Tools
Steven M. Bellovin
smb at cs.columbia.edu
Mon Dec 5 13:31:35 EST 2005
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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