While accessing your Bank account online, Have you ever thought… ...there could be a Hacker, somewhere in the World, who is after your Money? Maybe NO. Because, you believe that your bank offers Secure banking solution, Right? At The Hacker News, we have reported many incidents of , which proves that Banks are more often being targeted by Hackers, despite robust Banking Security mechanisms. Today we are going to talk about security of one of the Denmark's Largest Bank, reviewed by Sijmen Ruwhof, an Ethical Hacker, and IT Security Consultant. Ruwhof recently a blog post, " ". His In-depth technical post explains the extent to which Danske Bank, one of the largest Danish Bank, is vulnerable to hacking. In August, Ruwhof got intrigued with the idea of testing Bank's security while interacting with a group of Danish hackers at the , near Berlin. According to Ruwhof, Security experts and Whitehat hackers were disappointed with the terrible security implementations adopted by many Danish Banks. Ruwhof decided to see more of it… and Danske Bank did not disappoint him. He visited the website and viewed the HTML code of the customer login screen, and while browsing through the code, he had not imagined the kind of shock he got. A summary of what Ruwhof encountered, goes like this (Its a tale and not a LIST): After exploring all this loopholes and being in a state of shock… ....Ruwhof wanted to report about the security vulnerabilities to Danske Bank, in an effort to aware them about the risks associated with their Online Banking service. Firstly, the Bank didn't has any contact that supports and responds to such disclosures. Secondly, after managing to get a customer care number, the executive at the other end said: "Our technical guy will look at your finding." Then finally, Ruwhof took the Social Network's route to reach an employee of Danske Bank, where he got success, and reportedly the vulnerabilities were got patched within 24 hours. After 12 days Danske Bank acknowledged Rowhof and reading that he almost went into the coma, as the Bank thanked him for reporting about a potential vulnerability! On a serious note, Ruwhof said that with his 17 years of experience, he can differentiate between the good and the bad. We would suggest the Danske Bank and our readers to have a Good Read of the following links to know the extremities at both the ends. Therefore, you CAN be the victim bank of cyber attack too!
A hacker has claimed that he found that Danske Bank﻿Danske Bank leaked﻿ leaked﻿ confidential customer data in the form of session cookies on its public website. IT consultant Sijmen Ruwhof located the vulnerability within minutes of exploring the HTML code used by the bank's login screen and highlighted it to the bank. Though the bank resolved the issue, the hacker ﻿believes that ﻿Danske Bank leaked﻿ is ﻿in denial of their security issues with their system.