The Bank of Scotland has started offering people the ability to confirm their device is trusted now, simply by responding to a couple of prompts after logging in. If that cookie is not present, an additional security challenge is presented. Later they hope to do this by a different, less fragile means.įor a couple of years Santander has used a cookie to record a PC as a 'familiar' device. Naturally this makes this browser dependent too, not device dependent. In their initial implementation of this additional 'trusted device' 2 factor verification, the way the device will be recorded as 'trusted' is by setting a cookie. I had an interesting conversation with a very informed guy high up in the tech dept in Santander. I can't get a SMS from my UK bank to my French mobile number (wrong number of digits) so gave a friends UK mobile and they will forward the SMS code if the need arises.Īn annoying change for those with UK bank accounts and especially those also without UK mobiles but nothing to do with cookies - it happens if you use your phone banking app or internet via phone or PC - just depends what you want to do.Hi, it is to do with cookies, at least in some cases. This is a new 2FA requirement and UK banks will send a SMS to your registered phone under certain conditions (first log on, transaction download, new payment recipient, changing password etc). If you know of a cleaning program that's much better than Ccleaner at listing ease let me know. and oh, that's the browser on that PC you're trusting- use a different browser and your PC isn't trusted again. why are the banks using transient data to do this? I suppose 'cos it's an easy option. Thus next time I log in to that bank, I get 3 extra prompts to respond to to trust my device again. by text so as to 'trust' the PC being use.Ĭcleaner does not list the latest cookie used as one to be potentially kept, so it deletes it.
Soon this will mean receiving a code e.g. I don't need a registry cleaner though.Ĭhanges in UK bank security mean that banks are using more cookies to record devices as 'trusted'. Ideally a new cleaning program would do what Ccleaner does, but handle cookies much better, and list all of them. But Ccleaner only lists a few cookies- when I use Firefox to view its cookies, it lists many many more.
not deleted).Ĭcleaner lists cookies, and you can choose to search and drag them to a 'keep' list. Hi, I need a program that comprehensively lists cookies and allows certain ones to be kept (i.e.
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