[extropy-chat] The Business of Protecting Your Own Finances

Brian Atkins brian at posthuman.com
Wed Apr 26 16:28:17 UTC 2006


Some banks are moving to using a graphical keyboard where you can point and 
click your password to prevent keylogging. Actually in fact Windows XP has a 
graphical keyboard build in - just go to Start -> Run, and type osk.exe and it 
will pop up. Using that would help.

Also some banks are moving to using two factor authentication where you need to 
have not only some knowledge but also possess a physical fob or device that will 
give you a constantly changing code in order to login.

http://www.rsasecurity.com/node.asp?id=1157

P.S. If you do think you are a victim of keylogging, I would obviously suggest 
not only changing your bank password, but also every other password or other 
important bit of info you've typed in the last several months.
-- 
Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/



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