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Banks are under Attack.. Beware

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Security specialists have put out a grave warning about a massive Cyber attack planned against 30 major US Banks. RSA recently announced that a gang of Criminals had developed a sophisticated Trojan under a project idenitified as “Project Blitzkreig” which … Continue reading →

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Virtual Key Board unsafe under IE

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Dec 13: A vulnerability in Internet Explorer is said to make it possible for a hacker to track the mouse cursor movements on the screen. This would make the “Virtual key board” system used by some Banks for password entry useless. … Continue reading →

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How the OTP system for Bank transactions is bypassed

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Vijayashankar Na

Dec 7: The commercial banks in India have banked heavily on the two factor system where the OTP sent through a mobile is used to authenticate the password based access. Some Banks like SBI and ICICI Bank even tried to convince … Continue reading →

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