Phishing: are local banks doing enough?
Posted Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 1:16 pm by Mon Solo
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A previous post by J. Angelo Racoma mentions that customers of Metrobank are now the target of phishing attacks. I have always believed that the best defense against this type of attack is user awareness. Have our local banks done enough to educate their customers?
I checked the various bank websites if they made any attempt to inform users on phishing and other types of attacks. Citibank has a link. So do BPI and HSBC. Though Metrobank has a privacy page, there is no mention of phishing. Equitable, Union Bank, UCPB, PNB, and Banco de Oro have nothing at all on online security. RCBC merely explains how their bank protects information, but does nothing to educate the customer.
Looks like local banks are doing a poor job…
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7 Responses to “Phishing: are local banks doing enough?”
not so enough…
Modern market education from the local banking industry?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…
i would like to read a news artile of an incident of a phishing scam that goes successfully here locally.. because if i am a bank it would only bothers me if someone actually pulled it off and gets away with it..
In fairness to Metrobank, they sent an email just today, informing of such malicious emails.
But it think there should also be an online advisory or press release from the banks regarding these incidents.
Phishing is something that is really hard to control, since not all internet users are so tech savvy to determine which is true and which is not.
When this came out, some of our fellow network guys in different networks agreed to block the IP’s of the MetroBank phishing website until further notice. It would be great if competing service providers will somehow join hands in combating and blocking malicious sites reported to them. The computing/ICT government entities are honcho’s sitting ther a**es doing nothing, such a waste of taxpayers money. They should somehow devise a memorandum/SOP on things such as these. PH-CERT are also useless in my opinion.
two things. they just all want our money and leaving no one secured!
[...] After reading the PinoyTechBlog articles entitled Phishing: are local banks doing enough? and Phishers targeting local bank clients, I checked my SPAM folder and noticed a good number of Metrobank Phishing emails inside it. Even until today, I just got a new one. So, I decided to do a bit of Internet forensics. [...]
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