Hackers outwit online banking identity security systems

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Hackers outwit online banking identity security systems

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 2nd February 2012 18:35.

Criminal hackers have found a way round the latest generation of online banking security devices given out by banks, the BBC has learned. After...

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Hackers crack new online banking security putting 25m people at risk

Hackers are again gunning for Britain's 25million internet banking users after cracking the latest generation of security devices. Criminals have burst through banks' new calculator-style keypads to raid customers' accounts, a BBC investigation has found. The likes of HSBC's new Secure Key and Barclays' PINSentry were supposed to quash crime to near zero. But dangerous new viruses could add to the millions stolen online last year, experts say. Gary Clark, of data protection company Safenet, said the findings 'raise serious questions' over ordinary anti-virus protection. In October, This is Money explained how malicious bugs can masquerade as internet bank pages, fooling unwitting account holders into handing over their cash....Read more here--: Hackers crack new online banking security putting 25m people at risk