Posted by: mattmole | April 1, 2010

Ubuntu recommended for online banking

I was very pleased last night to read about recommendations to counteract the insecurity of Online banking. The article basically says that using your home PC for online banking (or anything that requires security) is a bad idea.

Instead of needing to use a completely specialist PC a security expert has suggested using an Ubuntu live disk. This means that the Ubuntu distribution is separate to the underlying operating system, and any viruses / malware / key loggers etc should not cause any damage to the user logging into their bank account!

Read the full article here

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