Are Major Banking Sites Insecure? |
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![]() Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:25:23 -0500
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Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
Online bank customers may want to pay a little more attention to their
At issue are the user login areas that can be found on banking sites
A more secure approach would be to force users to log in on a HTTPS
"If the login form is not HTTPS, you don't know if it's the real
Web pages that do not use this type of secure connection are
This type of attack is technically challenging, however, and hackers
SSL for Security
Still, there's no good reason for banks to allow users to log in on
Banks that require SSL authentication include Capital One Bank,
Often banks include SSL login pages as an option, but they can be hard
Though he admits to logging in to pages that do not use SSL encryption
One of the banks that does not use SSL sign-in on its front page
Though Bank of America allows customers to enter their online IDs on
"We're committed to safeguarding customer information online and we
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