‘We lost £120,000 in an email scam but the banks won’t help get it back’ | Money

‘We lost £120,000 in an email scam but the banks won’t help get it back’ | Money | The Guardian

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Lloyds, which took eight hours to make the payment, did not carry out any checks to ensure the name of the firm to which the payment was to be made matched the account numbers,

From ‘We lost £120,000 in an email scam but the banks won’t help get it back’ | Money | The Guardian

Neither Lloyds, nor any other bank do this. That’s just how the system works: the account name is an attribute, not an identifier.

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Websec Canada: Launching replay attacks against the Wells Fargo Wallet service

xxx This white paper is a shortened version of the actual research. Unfortunately, the exploitation bug is not fixed yet. The company was notified and informed about the issue. However, the bug is not fixable (at the moment). From Websec Canada: Launching replay attacks against the Wells Fargo Wallet service . xxx

We could fix mobile security, you know. We don't, but we could

Earlier in the week I blogged about mobile banking security , and I said that in design terms it is best to assume that the internet is in the hands of your enemies. In case you think I was exaggerating… The thieves also provided “free” wireless connections in public places to secretly mine users’ personal information. From Gone in minutes: Chinese cybertheft gangs mine smartphones for bank card data | South China Morning Post Personally, I always use an SSL VPN when connected by wifi (even at home!) but I doubt that most people would ever go to this trouble or take the time to configure a VPN and such like. Anyway, the point is that the internet isn’t secure. And actually SMS isn’t much better, which is why it shouldn’t really be used for securing anything as important as home banking. The report also described how gangs stole mobile security codes – which banks automatically send to card holders’ registered mobile phones to verify online transactions – by using either a Trojan...

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