Posts Tagged phishing

  • Phishing free for all Phishing free for all

    Australian banks are making life too easy for phishing fraudsters BY ELTON CANE It's one of the simplest ways a bank can protect itself and its customers against phishing attacks that appear to be sent from its domain. But Sender Policy Framework (SPF) records have only been deployed at four ...

  • Will security fears kill off CBA’s online banking ambitions?

    The bankers running Australia’s most actively used online banking service believe their latest upgrade puts them “years ahead” of the competition.With the Commonwealth Bank already well down the path towards deploying its new core banking platform, Drew Unsworth, head of online banking & s...

  • $4 million for cybercrime research

    eBay’s head of trust & safety Alastair MacGibbon says he’s “Seen some pretty dodgy crime stats peddled by some people in the last few years.”Of course in the absence of any substantial studies on the size of the problem, the media is left to report the results of what are often statistic...

  • Cyberwars forum stimulates debate

    RaboPlus has laid down the gauntlet to its competitors over online banking security.Probably the most amusing comment of the many that stimulated debate at last weeks Cyberwars forum was Bryan Inch comparing online banking to faulty cars.Inch told the audience during a panel discussion alongside ANZ...

  • NZ banks under fire over online fraud liability

    The New Zealand Bankers’ Association has taken a harder line than its Australian counterparts in assigning responsibility for online banking fraud losses.We’ve discussed the challenges of obtaining consistency on this issue before. However, since then the New Zealand Bankers Association has rele...

  • Banks tow the line on liability for online banking fraud

    More than a month after the official deadline for submissions to ASIC’s review of the Electronic Funds Transfer Code of Conduct, the Australian Bankers’ Association has lodged its submission, arguing for wider uptake of the Code by industry participants, but no change to existing provisions rega...