Though there is no silver bullet for security vulnerabilities every little bit helps. In this case it looks like such a measure would be useful for internet banking systems that use two factor authentication with a hardware one time password calculator. These beat the social engineering angle of the problem but not the infected computer or masquerading website issue. That is where a Ubuntu CD that takes you to the banks website would be useful. Of course they have to make sure that the transfer of CD to their client is not socially engineered itself. CN
--- On Fri, 3/26/10, Hari Kurup <[email protected]> wrote: From: Hari Kurup <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LUG] Ubuntu to the rescue To: [email protected] Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 7:02 AM On 2010/03/26 11:42 AM, Simbwa Phillip wrote:- > I guess the same bank may have passed some info to their customers to > the effect of ignoring email links that take you to pages that are not > signed with credible ssl certs. The title of the article posted was "Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking"? My answer is -Not really- as securing the end system is only the tip of the iceberg. -- Hari _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
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