Imagine how insecure you'd be having a password of '123456.' Well, at least its better than 'password!'

Michael Harte earns a little over $8,000 a day in return for running the systems and operations of the Commonwealth Bank. His mother thinks it’s a disgraceful amount of money.

When you live in “bank world” and want to make life easier for everyone else that doesn’t, you need to do what the Commonwealth Bank is doing: enabling real-time mobile banking on any device, any time and virtually anywhere.

With the March RSA hack still ringing in the ears of token users, banks and any organisation that uses tokens for two-factor authentication, the world must finally learn that authentication does not equal security, as cyber criminals use malware to easily hijack authenticated but insecure sessions.

EXCLUSIVE: TrustDefender, the company that secures internet transactions between banks, other online organisations and your computer, has just launched its new TDpro for Mac as a brand new beta.

Software and services giant CSC announced its Celeriti banking software last June and has just delivered the initial modules to the first customer. The company is in "active discussions with a number of Australian banks," according to a spokesperson.

Australian security software titan, TrustDefender, has launched a new version 3.0 of its flagship TrustDefender Pro technology, a new “Central Intelligence Server” and TrustDefender Zero, a new fraud risk management solution all designed to “reduce the risk of online fraud” targeting the growing expansion of mobile devices used for online transactions.

Determined to be different is the Commonwealth Bank’s slogan, with the company having ditched the memorable “let’s offend Americans” campaign, switching now to augmenting your reality instead!

St.George bank, owned by Westpac, has launched an “Australian-first app” feature “Mobile Banking Lite” letting customers “conveniently check their account balance and transaction history” – but why is it only “Lite” and not the full mobile banking deal?

NAB, the bank with a name that is a little word for National Australia Bank, says “mobile banking” is its “fastest growing channel” – and has launched a fresh new app, just in time for the iPad 2, while still working on the iPad 1, iPhones and even the Android.