A post by Brian Krebs at The Washington Post says that two companies — Trusteer and ING — claim to have come up with a way to ensure the security of mobile banking even if the customer's machine itself is compromised. The reasonable first reaction to that claim is that the companies involved should take a lower profile. The technology may or may not work as advertised. The point is that the attitude taken by the companies, at least in the way in which it is presented by Krebs, seems to be throwing out the type of challenge that hackers and malware distributors love. The technology is said to encapsulate data within devices by controlling and securing the application programming interfaces (APIs). |
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