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If your not paranoid when your on the web, you need to be.
"Researchers at security firm Finjan have discovered details of a new type of banking Trojan horse that doesn't just steal your bank log in credentials but actually steals money from your account while you are logged in and displays a fake balance."
If your not paranoid when your on the web, you need to be.
"Researchers at security firm Finjan have discovered details of a new type of banking Trojan horse that doesn't just steal your bank log in credentials but actually steals money from your account while you are logged in and displays a fake balance."
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I seem to remember reading an article about one bank actually suggesting that people boot from a Linux LiveCD and do internet banking using a browser on the LiveCD. It's a read-only medium, and everything starts fresh when you boot, so there's no risk of trojans or other nasties intercepting your session, at least locally.
Of course, you still probably need to keep the version of the web browser on the CD current, so it may mean burning a new CD every once in a while, or going through the browser update process every time you use it.
I seem to remember reading an article about one bank actually suggesting that people boot from a Linux LiveCD and do internet banking using a browser on the LiveCD. It's a read-only medium, and everything starts fresh when you boot, so there's no risk of trojans or other nasties intercepting your session, at least locally.
Of course, you still probably need to keep the version of the web browser on the CD current, so it may mean burning a new CD every once in a while, or going through the browser update process every time you use it.
Not a bad idea at all, but the inconvienence would turn most people off, at least until they lost $$ out of their accounts.
I like the idea, will have to give it a try. Would launching the livecd inside a virtual machine make this less secure at all?
The issue would be if your OS is infected with one of the password stealers, would it be able to intercept the keystrokes going to the virtual machine? I have no idea, but the possibility exists, the sophistication of todays malware is mind boggling.
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