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  • CBA details NetBank battle plan

    Commonwealth Bank of Australia has had a rough couple of days; with high levels of traffic forcing it to take its internet banking service down at times. But what was really going on behind the scenes?

  • CBA NetBank gets facelift

    Commonwealth Bank of Australia will tomorrow roll out a new internet banking portal that will allow millions of customers to personalise their online experience, following a trial with 10,000 users.

  • NAB UBank IT 'well advanced'

    Phase one of National Australia Bank's core banking system replacement strategy will be completed by June this year, the bank's chief executive Cameron Clyne said today.

  • St George promotes IT chiefs

    St George today revealed it had undertaken a minor re-shuffle within its IT management ranks last year, following its acquisition by larger bank Westpac.

  • Hacker threat: Rudd promises action

    Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has promised to bolster Australia's cyber-defences to fend off the threat posed by hackers.

  • ANZ launches tailor-made iPhone banking website

    ANZ has catered to those users about to purchase an iPhone by launching a new internet banking service customised for the device.

  • Bill Cheswick: Silly passwords, soft perimeters and Vista

    Strong passwords do not necessarily provide better security so why do we persist creating ones that are hard to guess -- and hard to remember -- when a computer can crack them in seconds, asks Bill Cheswick, distributing computing and communications researcher for AT&T Labs.

  • ING Direct: No secure pipe for Aussie bankers

    ING Direct Australia says it will not follow its US arm and give free security software to its local customers.

  • Australia crumbles under Cyber Storm attack

    The 55 Australian organisations that took part in Australia's cyberwar games, Cyber Storm II suffered "death by a thousand cuts", according to the head of Australia's Cyber Storm II effort.

  • Debian and Ubuntu OpenSSL generates useless crypto keys

    For almost two years the OpenSSL library used by Linux distribution Debian has been generating useless cryptographic keys although Debian has issued a patch, experts warn that systems may still be exposed.

  • Westpac and St George: A three-year IT hangover?

    In the wake of the confirmed AU$18.6 billion merger between Westpac and St George Bank, observers have forecast that the IT hangover from the deal could take at least three years to wear off, but in the process the merged banking entity will become one of the largest IT shops in Australia.

  • Online banking: What's security got to do with it?

    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).

  • Windows-based ATMs an easy touch for hackers

    Security experts have hacked ATMs to show how easy it is to steal money and bank account details from modern cash machines.

  • M-Banking: bank transfers from your phone

    ANZ launch M-Banking, allowing customers to make a variety of bank transactions from any Java-enabled mobile handset.

  • Got malware? Now you can bank online anyway

    The CSIRO has developed a tool it says will prevent criminals snooping online communications, but hacking experts say the system is not foolproof.

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