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Once on a system, it would detect when a user was visiting a banking website, create fake login sections of that site and then pilfer banking logins.
A hacker can easily create a banking website that looks like the real thing, but it's much harder to forge the digital certificate that accompanies the site.
Using this new vulnerability, a phisher could detect, via the hacked site, when a user was already logged in to a banking website.
It can be as simple as accidentally clicking on a malicious link or failing to question the authenticity of a phone call or banking website.
This means that if, for example, your favourite e-commerce or banking website were vulnerable, the attackers could, in theory, compromise that server and gain access to your personal information, including maybe banking information.
Typically, when a user visits an encrypted page over an HTTPS connection, like an e-commerce or banking website, their computer uses the certificate of the page they're viewing to encrypt the connection, hiding it from eavesdroppers.
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In the first real test of internet banking, websites at Northern Rock and many other banks crashed as savers tried to access their accounts.
The first cyberattack was simplistic, and easily dealt with: thousands of unknown individuals bombarding government, media and banking websites with "denial of service" (DoS) attacks.
Today, much of this information can be provided online – think of the live chat boxes on many business and banking websites, or even the pop-up video for customer support on Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet.
Online banking websites use HTTPS connections to help keep customer data private.
It was marketed as way to steal logins for banking websites and other financial data.
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