Comments on: Can banks offering Internet Banking expect their customers to have GREAT Internet security protection? http://bank1.info/can-banks-offering-internet-banking-expect-their-customers-to-have-great-internet-security-protection/ Banking Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:48:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: payne747 http://bank1.info/can-banks-offering-internet-banking-expect-their-customers-to-have-great-internet-security-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-277 payne747 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:10:36 +0000 http://bank1.info/can-banks-offering-internet-banking-expect-their-customers-to-have-great-internet-security-protection/#comment-277 <a href="http://speedrssreader.com">RSS Feed Reader</a> No, in fact they assume you have no protection at all. The connection between banks and your PC is always secure, it comes with your operating system and browser - and if you somehow managed to damage your software so much it can't perform a secure handshake - you'll get an error message, simple as that. However the real danger comes from software already installed on your machine (such as spyware and keyloggers) which steal the information before it's even encrypted and transmitted. Banks are finally coming round to this notion, and some (notably Barclays) offer extra pin protection to ensure the card is present when accessing accounts from home. RSS Feed Reader

No, in fact they assume you have no protection at all. The connection between banks and your PC is always secure, it comes with your operating system and browser – and if you somehow managed to damage your software so much it can’t perform a secure handshake – you’ll get an error message, simple as that.

However the real danger comes from software already installed on your machine (such as spyware and keyloggers) which steal the information before it’s even encrypted and transmitted. Banks are finally coming round to this notion, and some (notably Barclays) offer extra pin protection to ensure the card is present when accessing accounts from home.

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