A new Banking Code has been launched by the British Bankers' Association, warning that if you don't protect your PCs, you could be held liable for any losses incurred through online fraud. It had to happen. Sneak's colleagues have been predicting for a while that the natural conclusion of the banks rolling out two factor authentication and free AV for their customers is that they would begin to shift liability away from themselves.

The Code also helpfully suggests tips to protect oneself when venturing into the wild west of the web. One hint is to type any banking urls directly into the toolbar rather than click through to sites via potentially dodgy links. Um, which is fine, unless you suffer from that common male affliction known as sausage fingers. The surest way to end up at a phishing site is by trying to using ones porky digits to try and type an address in manually, Sneak reckons.

17 Apr 2008