25% of Bank of Asia Being Targeted Phishing
Bank August 12th, 2010
The results of the study ReadiMinds said that approximately 25 percent of banks in Asia has become the target of phishing attacks on online banking transactions throughout the year in 2007.
Research firm based in Singapore has said the high number of threats made to a number of security vendors competed to create software that can counteract these cyber crimes.
Meanwhile, 25 percent of the numbers presented are based ReadiMinds conducted research on a number of respondent banks in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Unfortunately ReadiMinds not explain in detail how much respoden involved in this research.
Of the survey also revealed that approximately 20 percent of the bank had made a very powerful implementation to strengthen their online transactions are done by the method of two-factor authentication (2FA). According to ReadiMinds, how 2FA trend which is now widely used by banks, especially banks that have online transaction services.
While 20 percent of other financial instituasi, as reported by ZDNet, Sunday (6/7/2008), said they had made a number of formal plans to ask the user more aware of this threat to avoid the possibility of theft of your user ID and password to access online bank
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