Washington Post recommends the use of Linux in the commission of the bank on-line transactions

The correspondent of the Washington Post's Brian Kirby, dealing with information security issues, wrote that in the framework of his study interviewed representatives of several dozen companies, lost 100 to 500 thousand dollars from the fact that the computer from which conduct banking operations had been infected with malware .

"But regardless of the method used in the fraud, all the attacks was one common denominator: they failed, because attackers are using malicious software could gain complete control over the victim's computer with an installed operating system Windows."

The newspaper quotes the head of one of the affected organizations, which lost about 200 thousand dollars as a result of malware infection your computer, from where the banking operations:

"I strongly recommend to pay attention to the system that you use to work with the bank. And if it is Windows, perhaps should look something else."

15 October 2009 | , , company, interview, linux, operation, question, research, safety

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