Simple Banking Security Tip: Verbal Passwords
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 16:53:03 +0000
There was a time when I was content to let my bank authenticate me over the phone by asking for some personal identifiers (SSN/DOB) that are broadly for sale in the cybercrime underground. At some point, however, I decided this wasn’t acceptable for institutions that held significant chunks of our money, and I began taking our business away from those that wouldn’t let me add a simple verbal passphrase that needed to be uttered before any account details could be discussed over the phone.
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