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Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing
From: Craig Webster <craig () xeriom net>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:14:25 +0100
Hi,
That WON'T WORK because it relies on TRAINING USERS, which CANNOT BE DONE.Instead, let's try selective breeding. Avoid the phishing scam or we'll cut your bits off. :)That will work, but will take several million yearsHmm good point. Still, it's the most cost-effective solution I've found so far. All it requires is a knife after all.You have to pay the knife-wielder, and this has to be funded over several million years - it's cheaper to redesign the system so that it's hugely more difficult to compromise.
I'll be the knife-weilder for free. I'm sure we'd manage to find someone in each generation to do it for nothing.
Actually - natural selection will actually work just fine. Those banks that adapt and use more secure systems will have a competitive advantage over the banks that don't, and that's all you need to drive the evolutionary process for the banks.
This is only true so long as clients actually care about security and don't think "oh it'll never happen to me; I'll stick with my current bank because it's less hastle." Craig -- Craig Webster | web: http://xeriom.net/ Xeriom.NET | tel: +44 (0)131 516 8595 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- RE: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targetedphishing Larry Seltzer (Oct 04)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Blue Boar (Oct 04)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Drsolly (Oct 05)
- RE: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targetedphishing Larry Seltzer (Oct 05)
- RE: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targetedphishing Drsolly (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targetedphishing Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Craig Webster (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Drsolly (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Craig Webster (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Drsolly (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Craig Webster (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Drsolly (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Craig Webster (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Craig Webster (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Florian Weimer (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Steven Champeon (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Florian Weimer (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Justin Mason (Oct 05)
- Re: Nordea Sweden shuts Internet banking due to targeted phishing Florian Weimer (Oct 05)