[AusNOG] AU Major Banks and SHA-1

Alex Samad - Yieldbroker Alex.Samad at yieldbroker.com
Fri Jun 26 11:32:48 EST 2015


I am always amazed (?) at how anally retentive banks can be to change.
There are still lots of bank users on XP
I have seen lots of “business critical stuff” running on excel, VBA,MS  Access on a client PC ….






From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Robert Hudson
Sent: Friday, 26 June 2015 10:55 AM
To: Nick Adams
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] AU Major Banks and SHA-1

On 26 June 2015 at 09:07, Nick Adams <nick.adams at reachtel.com.au<mailto:nick.adams at reachtel.com.au>> wrote:
You have to assume that the banks have calculated the likely risk of
compromise and resulting fraud versus the cost of enforcing strong
passwords and the labour cost of dealing with resetting Aunt Beryl's
password every fortnight.

You know what they say about assuming, right? :)
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