HSBC, the world’s local SECURE bank
HSBC E-banking is cool and fast. You receive emails every day from banking companies not to trust spam emails, that people from banks won’t ask for passwords over e-mail (hope not even over the phone). Well, HSBC e-banking supports only LATEST Firefox and Internet Explorer, for SECURITY REASONS (as they say). I had a problem transacting some Euros at 1 go between 2 accounts I have. I sent an email to HSBC help desk and I got a sweet reply:
HSBC helpdesk
Dear Mr X
Kindly note that problem is related to your browser since you are using IE7. The last version is not supported by us.
You are kindly request to use IE 6 or else Firefox.
Internet Explorer 7 was released in Q4 of 2006 and security wise “should be” much better. It’s about time HSBC keeps up to date with these things!
on March 21st, 2008 at 11:38 am
had i not know better, i would have posted this on maltainfosec - what exactly are thinking ?! Lemme guess, Opera is n/a either
on March 21st, 2008 at 11:53 am
I can always post it myself on Maltainfosec.
Obviously, why bother about opera??????!!!!
on March 27th, 2008 at 11:43 am
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