St George is joining the ranks of financial institutions taking up two-factor transaction authentication to protect its customers from fraud.
Australian company Cybersource says it's currently talking to two domestic banks about providing Linux-based bootable CDs to consumers to ensure Internet banking security.
SMS-based two factor authentication has been touted as a way of improving online banking security but Westpac's head of information security disagrees.
NSW Teachers Credit Union has become the first customer of Australia Post's push into online banking authentication and its token-based service.
Perth-based BankWest has unveiled plans to adopt two-factor authentication for its online business banking customers, adding momentum to the national push to beef up security for Internet banking services.
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It took help from three security experts, Citibank's spokesperson, dozens of e-mails and almost a full working day of investigation to confirm that an e-mail I had seen from Citibank was not actually a clever phishing attempt.
Banks are slowly moving towards deploying voice-authentication technologies in order to add an extra layer of security for their online and telephone banking customers.
Who predicted the death of the password -- and spam? Why is PKI not ubiquitous? Who makes these daft predictions anyway? ZDNet.com.au looks at how the security market was supposed to shape up, according to so-called "experts".
Peter Cullen, the company's chief privacy strategist, explains how Sender ID can take a bite out of spam and phishing.
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There are some security practices every worker should be aware of. ZDNet Australia offers an easy step-by-step guide to make educating your employees easy.
Customers and analysts say Microsoft is forcing its most important partners to use competing browsers by its move to integrate IE with Windows.
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