Pleng said:
OK Slightly OT but why is it reasonable to be worried about the security of internet banking? As long as you're prudent and ensure that firstly you never write down your security number/password and secondly you never respond to emails asking you to 'confirm your security details', online banking is far more secure than standard banking. It's far easier to forge a signature on a cheque than it is to guess somebody's online login details (banks vary rarely check signatures on cheques, and have even been known to pass unsigned cheques!)
Well, as with any online account it doesn't take that much personal information to request a password change, which would done via an email to your registered email account. And iirc email isn't exactly the most secure of methods of communication - either in transit, or in terms of perfect security of accounts.
Yahoo, for instance, basically asks you something along the lines of your monther's maiden name, which I've never thought that secure, and your date of birth, which most people keep in public on facebook.
Admittedly, to get that kind of information, you have to know someone fairly well in the first place, but still. I know I have my reservations (despite continuing to use the system).
To be quite honest, the most secure thing about it isn't actually the password, but the bizarre and convoluted username they give you, which it is usually much harder to recover, and certainly harder to guess.
You mean change email on online banking account? Password recovery? O___O personally I've never seen banks that behave this such! I've got a sort of keyring with a button and a display giving a random number (no-one in the world got though cracking it yet and it's years) when you login you're requested only your bank account number, a password and the current random number appearing on the keyring.
If you forget the password or loose the keyring you're doomed, gotta go to the bank and ask for a reset/new keyring given you provide your personal ID.
