St George is joining the ranks of financial institutions taking up two-factor transaction authentication to protect its customers from fraud.
Westpac is in serious damage control after its Internet banking service collapsed today, leaving 750,000 customers stranded.
Most Australian banks ramped-up their online service offerings in 2001 and are planning further enhancements in 2002. ZDNet Australia evaluates the choices that are currently on offer and takes a glimpse into the future of Internet banking.
NAB is planning an upgrade to its Internet banking platform that will include targeted cross-selling of products to users of the service.
A survey by the Australian Consumers Association magazine, Choice, has revealed that the use of Internet banking has almost quadrupled in three years.
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.
Westpac, one of the biggest banks in Australia, experienced multiple hardware failures on Monday and at the end of last week, which caused its online banking service to fall over for hours at a time. What happened to its backup systems?
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It is quickly becoming the norm for Australia's largest banks to offer discounts on or completely free computer security software to boost internet banking security. The question is, why?
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.
The Bank of Queensland is in the midst of a $480 million outsourcing partnership with EDS which has seen the bank's profits double in the last three years.
Don't expect Internet scams, hackers, trojan horses and the like to vanish overnight. The challenge is for banks and customers to minimise their exposure to losses. But how?
The idea that attacks on computer systems could provide an alternative method of spreading terror and disruption has been a concern for governments since IT systems began to proliferate.
South Korean government officials are warning consumers that Internet and e-commerce sites in that country may lack full compatibility with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, which will become available to consumers next week.
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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