Give banks the right to use .bank!
And only banks, that’s what Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at F-secure, has announced a few days ago. If financial institutions are the only ones that can use a bank-tld the end of phishing could be near.
As we all know, a lot of phishing-site are exact copies of the original sites, and only the domainname differences. So, what does Mikko think? That using the bank-tld will make people understand the difference? A lot of people trust their bank and are not smart enough to check the tld.
And if we look a little bit further, what is going to restrict a phisher to get access to a subdomein? Of course, Mikko has a point, but his solutions is just not enough!
If we don’t teach our kids, parents, grandpa’s and grandma’s how to see the difference, the problem will not pass with a simple tld!
On top of that, even if you have the right site, you’re not perfectly secure. Hackers showed us that a few weeks ago, when they cracked the text-message-security from the CommonWealth Bank in Australia.