Brian Krebs posted a friendly advice in his column for the Washington Post about how to best protect business users from cybercrimes. Cyber criminals have been getting away with stealing millions by getting your passwords. Payroll money is literally disappearing from their accounts after thieves stole the protected passwords in their computers.
Brian Krebs writes:
The simplest, most cost-effective answer I know of? Don't use Microsoft Windows when accessing your bank account online.
I am by no means a security expert so let the experts do the thinking and the talking. SANS Technology Institute, a security research organization tasked their members to come out with a cost-effective way of hardening security for these kind of attacks. They came to the conclusion that using Linux LiveCD when doing banking online fits these small to medium sized companies.
Linux LiveCD's would be familiar to any Linux geek but to company owners who probably haven't heard of Linux, an explanation is in order.
A live cd is a read-only, bootable copy of an operating system most commonly used by Linux distros. An example would be Ubuntu, Knoppix and Fedora.
Read Security Fix by Brian Krebs here.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/10/avoid_windows_malware_bank_on.html
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