Hostile world of UK online banking

January 23, 2008 - 3:43am | Banks and internet banks | News |
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Modern world can't imagine its current existence without online banking. We use e-mails to communicate with our banks that often become the victims of phishing.  In accordance to December survey, UK banks, such as NatWest bank reached 41% of spam and fraudulent e-mails roading in its servers, Citibank - 27% and HSBC - 11%. Within December 2007 there were over 162 million hacker attacks registered in the USA and overseas hunting your personal and financial information.

The number, variety and the complexity of the viruses, worms, scams are unprecedented. However, all of them can be classified basing on structure, main goal of hack, type of injection of malware to pick up necessary information, by the volume of destructive consequences and by the type of its operation: individual or collective. We have witnessed the recent appearance of  TJX, recognized as the most hostile and the most innovative malware, MySpace Samy Worm, CardSystem, Prg Banking Trojan, Free Macworld 2007 VIP passes, so many to enumerate.

British Anti-spam ClearMy Mail claims to be the unique filtering company that can give "100 % no spam" guarantee including filtering from image spam to circumvent conventional filtering.  Or... money back? Hardly...

 




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