Piraeus Bank, pioneer in matters of electronic transactions security, supports -first in Greece- the new digital certificates of Extended Validation type by VeriSign in its electronic services.
The installation of this digital certificate was carried out by Piraeus Bank and its customers should not do anything further. But they have one more way - and rather the best possible - to secure that they actually are on the real site of winbank.
As it is known, on every 'secure' web site appears an icon with a'lock'. This is placed up right, next to the address bar on the Internet Explorer 7 and down right, on the status bar in the previous versions of the Internet Explorer. Τhis icon shows that a digital certificate is installed.
But if the certificate is of "extended validation" type, when the user selects the icon with the lock, appears the entire information which allows him to secure at first look that they are actually on a real web site and not on a copy of it.
In this way, Piraeus Bank customers acquire one more weapon against the so called "phishing". If a user receives one of these fake emails, which are supposed to be sent by Piraeus Bank and selects the link in the email, he will be led to a fake web site, where there will not be any extended validation digital certificate and the user will be able to assure this by clicking on the icon with the lock.
Phishing is today the only way swindlers can deceive users. The new Piraeus Bank digital certificate helps its customers to deal easily with these attacks. Furtermore, moving in the same way, since 2004 Piraeus Bank provides its customers with the one-time extrapin passwords which are sent to their mobile phones, while since 2006 it provides them also with the extrapin generator one-time password generator device.
For Piraeus Bank, security in carrying out electronic transactions is the first priority and therefore it continues to invest in what the most modern and reliable technology has to show.