Security supplier F-Securehas called on the organisation responsible for establishing
domain names to introducea .safe domain name exclusively for
banks.
The company has called on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN), to introduce the domain name for use by registered
banks and other financial organisations.
This would be similar to other top level domain names such as
.uk and .gov. and would allow security providers to create better
software to protect the public, according to F-Secure.
“While a .safe domain name won’t prevent phishing attacks, it
will help banks and security providers to keep their customers
safe,” said Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer at F-Secure.
“Banks need to take on some of the responsibility for protecting
their customers and using a secure domain name such as .safe will
give customers the reassurance they need when banking online.”
“It’s true this will mean banks have to pay a premium to be able
to use the domain name, but it will reduce the number of successful
phishing sites that have been tricking many customers out of their
hard earned cash,” added Hyppönen.
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