New Zealand's ASB Bank is implementing a new authentication system that uses SMS messaging to reduce the potential for mass Internet banking fraud.
An information technology (IT) manager who played a key role in the upgrading of a secure online banking application for the Macquarie Bank has flown away to establish his own security company.
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The Commonwealth Bank will issue free two-factor authentication tokens to some 30,000 "highly active" customers of its Internet banking service as part of a drive to improve security.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has released a standard for the use of biometric authentication at financial institutions but banks are unlikely to invest in the technology.
It is more important for online banking to make customers feel secure than make those customers actually secure, according to the head of technology at Commonwealth Bank's New Zealand subsidiary, Auckland Savings Bank (ASB).
Two cards containing microprocessors that generate one-time passwords are being touted to Australian banks as possible replacements for tokens and passwords delivered by SMS and one is already being trialled by Visa.
Australians would prefer to use voice biometrics rather than PIN and password verification to prove their identity but security experts warn biometrics exposes consumers to even greater risk.
Phishing attacks have outnumbered e-mails infected with viruses and Trojan horse programs for the first time, according to security experts.
Australian researchers have worked with their U.S. counterparts to develop a way of making public key authentication ubiquitous and more accessible by encoding it as a sound.
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