Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Internet banking has become a dominant part of my life over the past few years, I actually have 3 seperate internet banking accounts with 3 different banks in the UK and Australia. I take it for granted that this information is safe and my connection is secure but after reading this article from the BBC I'm not so sure. Two fake banking sites were set up, one protected with a basic firewall the other totally unprotected, as they say the results were astounding.

'Over the eight weeks that the sites were left online, the unprotected website was attacked a total of 19,128 times, roughly once every four minutes.

The protected website fared better but was attacked 1,672 times, almost once every hour.

More than a third of the attacks on the protected website were so severe that they crashed the site and could have resulted in the loss of data.'

[ via James ]

Jon 4:41 PM Permalink