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by jacquesm 4655 days ago
Both my banks do (European banks, specifically Rabo and ABN/AMRO).

These are still not immune to phishing attacks but it's a lot better than TAN codes or some other 'dumb' authentication scheme.

Typically these systems work in conjunction with pin-and-chip card, a small piece of hardware that generates the codes and a challenge / response system built into the website you use for the authorization.

Separate challenges exist for logging in (read access) and transferring money.

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Those are common in Brazilian banks as well. At least four of the six biggest (I don't remember about the last two) do two-factor authentication.

Another cool thing I've seen in Banco do Brasil was the need to authorize the computer you're going to use in a ATM or in a 1-800. If I recall correctly, they do that with a Java applet.

Recently they also launched a common-malware-search-and-destroy application of MANDATORY use in Windows computers (my mom uses, she asked me. And yes, the digital certificates were all valid).

What's wrong with TANs?