[LINK] Consumer computer security

[Alan L Tyree]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:51:54 +1100
Marghanita da Cruz <marghanita at ramin.com.au> wrote:

> Eric Scheid wrote:
> > On 1/23/07 9:35 AM, "Roger Clarke" <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Users won't foot fraud bill: ASIC
> >>Karen Dearne
> > 
> > 
> >>In any case, it says, most consumers could not adequately secure
> >>their PCs against complex phishing and Trojan attacks on account
> >>information.
> > 
> > 
> > and in any case: phishing does not require a compromised PC, being
> > a social hack, and so a "adequately secured PC" is as relevant as
> > what colour socks they happen to be wearing that day.
> ..
> and then there is this case:
> > Judge in Hilliard case lambasts Westpac
> > BANKING practices revealed in the court fight between businessman
> > Steve Vizard and his former bookkeeper, Roy Hilliard, portrayed
> > Westpac as one of the world's laxest banks, a judge said yesterday.
> <http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/judge-in-hilliard-case-lambasts-westpac/2006/09/27/1159337222684.html>

Or this one with the same bank. Banking practice here made the fraud
almost inevitable, and then the Victorian Court of Appeal let them get
away with it: 
http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan/fraud-by-design.html

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