Timeline for Banking: Ubuntu virtual machine and virtual keyboard, or full Ubuntu install on USB drive?
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| Jan 16, 2018 at 10:18 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/953209947973668865 | ||
| Jan 9, 2018 at 20:57 | comment | added | jrtapsell | If you are using a virtual keyboard malware on the host can just watch the mouse location and see what you have typed... | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 19:57 | review | Close votes | |||
| Jan 12, 2018 at 14:17 | |||||
| Jan 9, 2018 at 19:48 | answer | added | Mike Ounsworth | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 19:38 | comment | added | Mike Ounsworth | I'm not sure why the version of Windows in relevant. Either you trust the host OS to be malware-free (in which case, just do your banking directly on the host), or you're assuming the host is compromised, in which case any VM running inside it is theoretically also compromised. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 19:37 | comment | added | Mike Ounsworth | Possible duplicate of Are virtual keyboards not necessary anymore to protect against keyloggers? | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 17:57 | comment | added | AndrolGenhald | See this for instance. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 17:44 | comment | added | Chris | Even if the host is Windows 10 and VM is Ubuntu? | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 17:41 | comment | added | AndrolGenhald | If you're really that paranoid you have to go with the USB drive, a virtual machine wouldn't do anything against a compromised host. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 17:15 | review | First posts | |||
| Jan 9, 2018 at 18:07 | |||||
| Jan 9, 2018 at 17:15 | history | asked | Chris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |