Most online bankers re-use their log in credentials on other Web sites, opening themselves up to particularly vulnerable avenues of cyber attack.
That's according to Trusteer, a customer protection company for online businesses, which said it believes about three-fourths of users share passwords they use for online banking with at least one nonfinancial Web site, and 47% share both user name and password.
New York-based Trusteer based its conclusions on data collected during a year of Internet browsing by more than 4 million users of its Rapport browser security service, including many of whom are customers of large North American and European banks.
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