Latest trend - Linux Boot CDs for Online Banking

[jim.halfpenny at gmail.com (Jim Halfpenny)]

2009/10/18 Dale Stirling <dale at puredistortion.com>

> This is definatly a short term fix as I this becomes a major trend it
> will just shift the attackers focus to the OS's on these live CD's.
>
> Then we are in the same position that we are now having users that
> have a false sence of security from a quick fix that had a limited
> life span.
>
> As said before I think a patched system and user education are the way to
> go.
I can see where the banks are coming from with this, since it *may *be
possible to safely use  a computer infected with current banking trojans
when booting from a live CD. Penetration into the market will probably be
low so malware pushers may not target this platform. However, even if this
were an minimal environment which auto-updated on boot up I reckon this
would be too slow for Joe Blow. I have doubts whether people would reboot
into a different OS in order to gain some additional security.

Jim
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