Cyber Cafe Security
I need to log into our banks, brokerage accounts, credit cards, Paypal, etc. from the road to keep our personal finances in order but am nervous about logging in from random cyber cafes around the world. It's trivial to load key logging software onto these computers and capture log in/passwords, credit card numbers, etc.
So far I have found these two solutions by Googling around for a few minutes.
http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2006/posters/herley-poster_abstract.pdf
http://www.learnmoney.co.uk/newsletter/jun-2006-5.html
Does anyone have feedback on these techniques or have better ways to skin this cat?
Labels: Cyber Cafe Security, loggin in from internet cafe
posted by Eric Stahl @ 11:24 PM
3 Comments:
just give me your account numbers and i'll take care of it all for ya. promise!
RoboYak here...one simple way to beat a keylogger is to cut and paste your password from a file that you open that has your passwords in it.
Add another layer of security to that by using a password safe program like:
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
or
http://www.moonsoftware.com/pwagent.asp
to keep your passwords in a locally encrypted file...then cut and paste them from that.
Thanks Shawn. I will try PasswordSafe. It looks perfect for this. I will send feedback once I have it set up.
Eric
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