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[Astral]

Up to now, I have not used my work laptop for accessing online banking or to make any card transactions over the net. I have always used my own computer for these types of activity on the basis that someone in IT, or elsewhere on the company network, could access my personal details. Am I being over-cautious?

Also I will be getting a G3 card fitted. Is this inherently less secure than normal intenet connection, or connection through VPN?

[roseway]

Well, you should certainly clear your cookies and your browser cache after online banking with anything other than your own home PC. Apart from that I don't think it should be a security problem.

I know nothing about G3 I'm afraid.

Eric

[mr_chris]

G3 or 3G? Either way I don't know much about it and how secure it is.

Personally I'd probably not do online banking over a mobile phone network, purely because I don't understand the security implications and 'hackability' of such a network.

As for using your credit card and online banking on your work's network, some would say it's overcautious and some would say not. At the end of the day you should do what you feel is comfortable. If the IT bods really really wanted to, they could probably do it, but (a) they'd have to be monitoring at exactly the time you do the transaction and (b) they'd have to want to do so.

Doesn't help much, does it?