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Someone was showing me Capital One 360 (formerly ING), which uses an onscreen PIN pad that you either have to click with your mouse, or type using a randomly ge
by SloopJon 13y ago
Someone was showing me Capital One 360 (formerly ING), which uses an onscreen PIN pad that you either have to click with your mouse, or type using a randomly generated mapping. The idea is to thwart keystroke loggers, but it's totally infuriating.
- duskwuff 13y agoThe worst part is, it doesn't even thwart keyloggers very well! It's not uncommon for password stealing malware to detect when the user is viewing a site that uses a "PIN pad" login of this type, and start taking screenshots surrounding the location of each click to capture input.