But Mr Mueller, and the countless others who have been the targets of phishing and Trojan attacks, would have been largely protected if their banks had switched from outdated alphanumeric login protection to an image-based authentication system such as SafeLogin[TM] from UK-based Tricerion Ltd.
Tricerion Girector and co-founder Norman Fraser said: "With SafeLogin[TM], Mr Mueller needn't have worried.