Secure Banking 101, Take 2.
22nd June, 2006
Some of you may remember that it was brought to the light before, the in-security of some password entering schemes, when the Westpac moved to their new system.
When, it looks like another is to follow a similar path, and maybe they have gotten it right.
It seems Credit Union Australia, on the 1st of July, will move over to a new system of where you can enter in your password either by the keyboard, or via their "Scramble Pad". Unlike the Westpac attempt, you can still enter with your keyboard if you so wish. Hopefully this is how it will stay. I have fired an email off to them to find out.
On the down side, they fail to get password security right, with the fact that passwords are only numeric, and only up to 6 digits long.
Comments
(#2) — Steve
Is that like SecurID? I use those for work.
Australia are behind the times. We had such a great grip on the technological world too... Oh well.
Saturday, 18 November 2006 @ 7:48 a.m.
(#1) — pickle
Westpac are twits. They've always been behind in technology, so I'm not surprised they're trying to make the leap.
Here in Belgium, I have two options. One of them uses a little thing they call a "digipass" (it's a tiny thing about the dimensions of a credit card, but about 8 credit cards thick). What you do is put in your pin number and you get a magic code to put into the website. I hate it.
Option two is to use a smart card reader with a built in keypad. The idea there is, to log in, you use your bank card's chip and your normal pin code (yes, I know, Australia's lagging behind there, again).
My two cents. Good to see if you're still alive Prae, and that I can spy on your life without you knowing it :)