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British customers of High Street banking brand Natwest are being advised not to use the domain natwest.co.uk – by none other than Natwest itself.
Reg reader Dan Mygind, while doing some routine online banking, spotted a rather alarming certificate error while trying to visit natwest.co.uk.
That error – a common name mismatch error usually associated with an HTTPS certificate for one domain name being presented on a different domain – triggered the customary alarming dialogue box in Google’s Chrome browser.
In turn, that prompted Mygind to ask Natwest whether it was aware of the certificate error and whether it still owned natwest.co.uk.
Any online security problems affecting banks, or perceived to affect them – whether trivial or not – causes alarm. Consumers are increasingly becoming aware of threats to their online banking secu ..
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