[Dataloss] Fringe: e-banking not yet secure

Adam Shostack adam at homeport.org
Fri Jul 25 09:57:36 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 02:26:18AM +0000, security curmudgeon wrote:
| : Over 75% of banking Web sites contain fundamental design flaws that 
| : could put customers at risk from cyber thieves, according to a study (of 
| : 214 bank web sites)conducted by researchers at the University of 
| : Michigan.
| 
| Unfortunately, all I can find are articles mentioning the study. It still 
| isn't available on Atul Prakash's home page [1]. Since all we have to go 
| on right now are sound bytes and brief summaries, it is very easy to tear 
| large holes in the results. I encourage Prakash and his team to make the 
| original research more readily available.

http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2008/program.html
http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2008/proceedings/p117Falk.pdf



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