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Old 21st Dec 2014, 19:51
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Originally Posted by crewmeal
Another reason to avoid online banking on a phone or tablet.
It may depend more on your bank's security measures than your's. My bank allows me to access my account via my iPhone (iOS 7) and my iPad (iOS8). But to login I must respond to a challenge code they send me with an 8 alphanumeric response (generated from my own credit-card size device). Even then they will challenge me again if I attempt to make a large payment, or a payment to someone new.

This can still be thwarted by a 'man-in-the-middle' hack, but I always go to my bank via their App and not through a browser, and never via an e-mailed link. I may be too trusting that their App hasn't (yet) been hacked but ...
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