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Thousands of British online banking customers.

16 years ago

Thousands of British online banking customers have fallen victim to a sophisticated attack by cyber criminals who have stolen thousands of pounds from their accounts.

"The article describes problems in the UK, but viruses don't recognise borders."

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Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
16 years ago
Yet another reason why I'm glad I have never 'banked' on line.

Just call me old fashioned...I don't care.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
16 years ago
this is why so many banks are now issuing linux live cd's for those who do online banking, using a linux live cd in the pc cd rom drawer and going online by accessing it will prevent much of that. I only do my online bill paying etc on my linux machines. Having a linux live cd is a very good tool to have handy for many reasons this is one more reason.
Avoid Windows Malware: Bank on a Live CD
E-Banking on a Locked Down (Non-Microsoft) PC

However of course if the bank itself had it's security breached then all bets are off, and many really do need to do some serious beefing up.

I just got a letter from my electric provider saying that they had an oppsie last week when they accidentally gave a garbage bag full of our personal account info to the cleaning crew rather than put it through the shredder, the bags apparently got mixed up. So now they suggest we put a fraud alert on all of our accounts, that kind of BS is just not acceptable these days.
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My parents had thousands stolen from their checking account. By online thieves? Hackers? Nope. By a dude walking into a branch and filling out a withdrawal slip. Multiple times. They got the money back, but it was a PITA and the bank really wasn't all that interested in helping them. If one of my mother's former students hadn't been an employee, she might still be fighting w/ them. Meanwhile, banks, credit card companies, etc. all store customer info on computers. And they back up that data on tape or disks and ship it off to storage facilities. And sometimes, it gets lost. Or they accidentally throw out computers laden w/ SSNs. Or a laptop is stolen. This has happened a dozen times just in the last year in the US. To hundreds of thousands of people. So not banking online doesn't make you any safer. Make up a good password and check your accounts regularly. You won't be any more vulnerable, and you'll catch errors/fraud quicker if they do happen.
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We pay nearly everything by credit card & are the exception to "most people" (do not buy more stuff) & pay it off every month. Ya, same here. I was out shopping once with a friend and I was purchasing something on my CC and she asked, when you charge everything, how do you know you can afford it? I guess the answer to that is I just do. I don't tend to buy frivolous stuff often, although certainly occasionally. But in any case, I do have a pretty good sense of what price I'm willing to pay for something and whether I will have the money to pay for it. I like -not carrying a lot of cash -getting back money on what I spend -being able to look back and see what I spent my money on over the last month I do agree that some (most?) people do buy more stuff and do get themselves into debt and that that is how those CC companies make a LOT of money. But for the ones of us who don't fall into that trap, IMO, CCs are way better than cash!
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Never thought of the narcissist angle, but it does make sense. When you think how welcoming everyone over here was, with as far as one can tell little bother about POC, in fact it appeared like a breath of fresh air. Grandmother-in-law took her under her wing (perhaps remembering how D had been treated in the early days with little apparent concern for her welfare). Lots of smiling, glad-handing, beautiful wedding etc. How/why did it all go wrong SO quickly? At the moment yet another legal dispute in underway between the Home Office and the couple concerning their security when/if they visit these shores. They feel their family will not be safe as they are no longer entitled to round the clock police protection, and "Sorry Sir but you cannot hire the Metropolitan Police by the hour/day. That isn't their job." BTW Don't forget that Daddy has already given you millions of £££'s. You are not on the breadline. A short afternoon tea visit to Windsor has given him the realisation that he must 'protect' HM and make sure the 'right people' are around her; whatever that means.
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mariend
16 years ago
Ravencajun How do I get a linux live cd? Can I contact my bank? get it on line?
thanks
Marie
bpgreen
16 years ago
Here is a site with a bunch of different options.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
16 years ago
one of the easiest ways is to go to any magazine store and look at the linux magazines usually they all have a live cd in them of some distro of linux, usually it is ubuntu. Or you can order them free online.
Request Free CD of Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Now!
Requesting CDs from ShipIt or you can get Kubuntu free here.

you can download and burn an iso of any linux distro free online too.
Distrowatch lists the various distros and gives info on them. I will post the link below.
I personally use Mepis8 or Simply Mepis linux.
MEPIS

Here is a link that might be useful: distrowatch
fruitjarfla
16 years ago
To the users of one or more of the linux varieties, why do you also use Windows?
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
16 years ago
habit, mostly. I maintain all the computers here and my husband's laptop is windows 7, he has never used linux. My netbook came with xp, so I use it when using the netbook. I have various towers, some with windows and some with linux, but what I go to daily, like right now, is my Mepis8 linux.
and of course the pandigital novel ereader is running linux Android.

Often times the reason is that they may have some program or programs they really like or have to use which they can not run in linux, however using WINE in linux many of the windows programs can be functional in linux.
I don't have that problem, everything I need comes prebundled with linux or is just a few button clicks away in the repositories (which are like big giant stores full of free programs)

I am not however a linux geek, I wish I could say I was, but at my old age I just can not get into all that command line learning, I do wish I had started with linux when I was younger so I knew more, but the linux of today allows people like me to get along pretty well with out too much command line geekiness LOL. I love that I can do lots of updates but never have to do a restart! I just restart it for the heck of it now and then but seriously it can run a long time with out a restart, very stable.
but it is not for everyone.
using the live cd really does not take skill though because you are not installing the linux you are just running it right from the cd in your cd drawer, when you reboot with out the cd in the drawer you're right back to your usual windows with no changes.
DA_Mccoy
16 years ago
I for one respect security. However if I was a contributor to them I would be more concerned with the mining of information at Twitter, Facebook, and the like.

Users are historically their own worst enemy. In fact all too often they are just plain lazy. Heaven forbid that security interferes with them or creates an inconvenience.

Lack of protocols or proper disciplnes when using the Internet, expired browsers and security software, duplicate user names, and lite passwords rather than sophisticated ones are more of a threat than any single issue in the wild.

It is a human instinct to stay in a comfort zone and resist change, but what is better having control of the change for the better/safer experience or fighting back after a system has been breached?

Be current, be aware, and be safe.

DA

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