Comments on: Huge Online Loss by Swedish Bank Nordea - Claimed to be Biggest Loss?

By: Around the Blogosphere and Back | RiskAnalys.is

Around the Blogosphere and Back | RiskAnalys.is — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:18:05 +0000

[...] Bank hacks don’t scare me. Even the larger ones on record. In reading this, I think it’s cool that Dark Reading points out about the ability for MFA to help in this case. It’s also very nice of the bank to refund the money. I was once sitting with some VPs at a really good, large bank, and one said, "You know, sometimes we forget that one of the fundamental purposes for banks has traditionally been to keep people’s money safe." The fact that this was Swedish makes me wonder… How homogenized is the banking industry in Sweden. Are there only a couple of targets? I’ve no clue. Man, I have GOT to get to Stockholm for vacation some day. [...]

By: Patrick Ogenstad

Patrick Ogenstad — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:05:54 +0000

“If itâ€™s a custom trojan I donâ€™t see how anti-viral software would have helped, but thenâ€¦executives and corporates tend to talk a lot of crap when it comes to technical issues.”

Then again a lot of people will listen to the fact that some of the customers didn’t have antivirus, by talking about antivirus and giving it away for free the bank is shifting the blame to the customers.

That way less focus will be spent on the banks security issues. It would be more useful so check how many of the customers were running as a local administrator.

By: Darknet

Darknet — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:18:23 +0000

Bloody pedants!

By: Bogwitch

Bogwitch — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:43:50 +0000

“As always just be wary, no point preaching here as the people reading this site know not to open random executables sent from anywhere unless they are signed and md5 hashed ”

So, you would open a random executable as long as it was signed and hashed?

Sheesh.