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User negligence?

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Sun Jul 27 00:40:34 2003 
Unfortunately there are a lot, and growing number, of self-infected PCs
on the net.  As the banks point out, this is not a breach of the bank's
security. Nor is it a breach of the ISP's security.  The user infects
his PC with a trojan and then the criminal uses the PC to transfer money
from the user's account, with the user's own password.


http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&art_id=qw1059039360281B215&set_id=1

"The fact that hackers got access to bank customer's accounts was not due
to inadequate security at the bank, but due to "user negligence", an
e-commerce company said on Thursday.
[...]
"Consumers should be vigilant when opening emails. If they receive strange
emails, or emails from people or companies they do not know, it is better
not to open the mail - especially attachments. These intrusions were
clearly not a result of any vulnerability in Absa's Internet security."