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Small Businesses Should Conduct Online Banking from Dedicated Computers
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| We'll go even further and suggest that the
| dedicated computer use Linux, FreeBSD, or
| even Mac OS X, if that suits you better.
| We're not trying to start a controversy over
| which operating system is better or more
| secure. In fact, this has nothing to do with
| the security of the operating system itself,
| but the fact that 99.9% of these trojans were
| constructed for Windows and will fail to run
| on anything else.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Small-Businesses-Should-Conduct-Online-Banking-from-Dedicated-Computers-131086.shtml
Top 10 Blog Posts of 2009
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| Top Operating Systems
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| * Windows: 62.1%
| * Linux 26.8%
| * Mac 9.7%
| * Mobile 1.4%
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/01/top-10-blog-posts-of-2009.html
Recent:
On-Line Banking and Linux
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| I have been banking on-line for a long time
| now. Indeed I started banking by telephone
| with the Co-operative Bank when they first
| introduced it, well before any other bank
| had done so in the UK. I haven't actually
| been to my nearest bank (which is 48 miles
| away) for about 15 years. No need.......cash
| machines for cash at no cost, cheque
| deposits through the Post Office and of
| course the on-line banking for paying bills
| and moving money around.
|
| [...]
|
| I am no Linux expert but how about providing
| a "barebones" Linux OS which in the form of
| a LiveCD, configures your internet
| connection wired or wireless, and provides a
| basic secure browser to access your on-line
| banking services. If small enough this could
| be issued in the form of a "credit card"
| sized CD you could keep in your wallet along
| with your other cards.
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http://wadsworths-way.blogspot.com/2009/11/on-line-banking-and-linux.html
Windows unsafe for online banking? Shopping?
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| The most prominent example of this is The Washington
| Post's security columnist, Brian Krebs. Krebs
| recently recommended that after interviewing "dozens
| of victim companies that lost anywhere from $10,000
| to $500,000 dollars because of a single malware
| infection," he's now recommending that, "commercial
| online banking customers consider accessing their
| accounts solely from non-Windows systems."
|
| As Krebs points out, he's not the only one. The
| Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis
| Center, an online financial-sector security forum
| recommends business users, ""carry out all online
| banking activity from a standalone, hardened, and
| locked-down computer from which e-mail and Web
| browsing is not possible."
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http://www.itworld.com/security/81556/windows-unsafe-online-banking-shopping
Teeth-Gnashing and Tongue-Lashing Over Desktop Linux Foot-Shooting
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| "Even if the Windows installation on the underlying
| hard drive is completely corrupted with a keystroke-
| logging virus or Trojan, that malware can't capture
| the victim's banking credentials if that user only
| transmits his or her credentials after booting up
| into one of these Live CDs," Krebs explained.
|
| The community's reaction? More than 400 comments on
| Slashdot just a few days later, not to mention
| discussions on OStatic, as well as on LXer and
| beyond.
|
| Linux, you're on a roll!
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/68409.html?wlc=1256048572&wlc=1256048554
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