On 02/13/16 13:17, Timothy Murphy wrote: <<>> > Let me confess my motivation: In the last month my bank have > said 3 or 4 times that I have given the wrong PIN number, > and has blocked my account. > (I just have to ring them to unblock it, but it is annoying.) > > I'm 95% sure I gave the correct PIN number, but would like to verify > that. > I am a little worried that some baddie might have accessed my laptop. > Hopefully that is not so, as I am running shorewall on a home server > in between laptop and internet, and it shouldn't be possible to get through. > Also I haven't had any warnings, > and don't see anything out of place in my log files. > > Any suggestions of likely cause? > . some 'after thought'. not to cause, but to something you might try because of possibility that someone may be trying to access your account. change your account login name. something like "timothe murfy", or some other play on sound and spelling. also, you might add a number or two. anything that will throw off anyone who has gotten your name and name of bank from a thrown away statement, an improperly written check that was carelessly discarded. even a disgruntled employee who was fired and is trying to get back at a former employer. doing such, along with an auto entry password add-on would tend to insure that you and you alone are accessing your online banking. i have been using online banking for over 30 years and i am now using my 6th change of login name, around 20th password change, along with about 12th changing of security check responses. hth. -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
