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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Online banking encryption broken - Not so fast!

This is a fine headline, and a reminder not to do your banking on public connections anyway. Thank you Dino.

Online banking encryption broken - World - CBC News: ""For most users this is only possible on an open WiFi connection like you get at the café or airport," he told CBC News in an email. "You should never use open WiFi to conduct secure transactions like banking, whether there are known weaknesses in TLS or not."

The attacker must also be able to load code into the user's browser — something that anti-virus software should protect against, Wisniewski added."

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