[OT] Security Goes Visual

[MisterX]

Scott

Most of those changes are made to work against keyloggers, and
bots...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/18/keylogger_growth_survey/

cheers
Xavier 

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> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Scott Rossi
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 November, 2005 04:37
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: [OT] Security Goes Visual
> 
> The recent thread regarding "thinking graphically" reminded 
> of a recent update my bank made to enhance protection for 
> online banking customers: they added a visual aspect to the 
> login process.
> 
> When logging into your account, you must now choose an image 
> from a library containing hundreds (thousands?) of images, 
> and related word or phrase that you are to be presented with 
> every time you log in.  Presumably this step was taken to 
> thwart phishing attempts since it's pretty difficult, if not 
> impossible, to replicate the login process (the image and 
> login word/phrase are stored on the server).
> 
> We'll have to see how effective this technique is in the long 
> run.  But as a designer, I find this development to be very 
> interesting and wonder if the same safeguards will eventually 
> be be applied to other situations requiring secure 
> login/registration, including software.  Pretty soon we'll 
> have to start keeping track of all our visual passwords, 
> either in an image database, or in a descriptive text version 
> of the same.
> 
> Something to think about...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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