[plug] NSW Police: Don't use Windows for internet banking

[Richard Meyer]

Anybody seen this?

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/157767,nsw-police-dont-use-windows-for-internet-banking.aspx

Quote:
"Consumers wanting to safely connect to their internet banking service
should use Linux or the Apple iPhone, according to a detective inspector
from the NSW Police, who was giving evidence on behalf of the NSW
Government at the public hearing into Cybercrime today in Sydney.

Detective Inspector Bruce van der Graaf from the Computer Crime
Investigation Unit told the hearing that he uses two rules to protect
himself from cybercriminals when banking online.

The first rule, he said, was to never click on hyperlinks to the banking
site and the second was to avoid Microsoft Windows.

"If you are using the internet for a commercial transaction, use a Linux
boot up disk - such as Ubuntu or some of the other flavours. Puppylinux
is a nice small distribution that boots up fairly quickly."


told them so ......

 


-- 
Richard Meyer
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. 
William Pitt, 1783

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