Malware nicks your money

Internet banking is a great thing, but this is no longer the case when Malware steals your money while you’re online. The Trojan URLzone displays a wrong amount of money and steals away a part of your account. Today the infection mainly strikes German internet users. Currently about 6.400 people are infected by the virus and money has been stolen from hundreds of them



Marije Laureys

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http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelId=20090930108320&word=malware

ECB does it over again

The ECB pumps for the second time money in Euro countries. The institution will lend banks 75,2 billion Euros, with an interest rate by 1%. According to the ECB, 589 banks signed up already, but the banks are less interested than in June 2009 (same offer). The loans aim for pushing the capital flows and contributing the economic revival.

Yasmin Haegeman

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http://dsonline.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelId=DMF20090930_018

Online Banking Explosion

According to the Pew Internet and American Life project one-quarter of all American adults now bank online. This isn't surprising if you know that banks offer substantially better interest rates than are available in most local banks. The people that are most likely to bank online are between 28 and 39, after all they have a decent amount of money, know how to use the internet and don't have much time to go to the bank. Online bankers also experience some disadvantages like phishing, hackers, no 'personal touch’ , ...

Zita Van haecke

sources
http://www.fivecentnickel.com/2005/05/01/online-banking-explosion/
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-online-banking-services.html