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Secured Mobile Banking Using Steganography
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Abstract
Mobile banking (also known as M-Banking, mbanking, SMS Banking etc.) is a term used for performing balance checks, account transactions, payments etc. via a mobile device such as a mobile phone. Mobile banking today (2007) is most often performed via SMS or the Mobile Internet but can also use special programs called clients downloaded to the mobile device.
Banks and other financial institutions are exploring the use of mobile commerce to allow their customers to not only access account information, but also make transactions, e.g. purchasing stocks, remitting money, via mobile phones and other mobile equipment. This service is often referred to as Mobile Banking or M-Banking. More negative issues like ID theft, phishing and pharming are lurking when it comes to mobile banking, particularly done on the mobile web. Net security technology free from redundancy and paradigm shifts away from mobile web-based banking will be an optimal solution to mobile banking in the near future.
Introduction
The latest mobile technology had a major impact in helping banks service. Internet Banking helped give the customer's anytime access to their banks. Customer's could check out their account details, get their bank statements, perform transactions like transferring money to other accounts services such as loans, credit cards etc., and pay their bills sitting in the comfort of any where at anytime.
However the biggest limitation of Internet banking is the requirement of a PC with an Internet connection. Mobile banking addresses this fundamental limitation of Internet Banking, as it reduces the customer requirement to just a mobile phone.
Still, the main reason that Mobile Banking scores over Internet Banking is that it enables ‘Anywhere Banking'. Customers now don't need access to a computer terminal to access their banks, they can now do so on the go – when they are waiting for their bus to work, when they are traveling or when they are waiting for their orders to come through in a restaurant.
Upon development of m-commerce as one of the new branches of e-commerce, m-banking has emerged as one of the main divisions of m-commerce. In spite of its advantages, m-banking is facing some challenges as well. One of these challenges is the issue of security of this system This paper presents a method for increasing security of the information requested by users with the use of steganography method. Steganography is the art of hiding information inside the picture.
There are two types of services offered in m-banking i.e,
1. Notification and Alerts
2. Informations
We present a new method for improving security of these messages using stegnography method. stegnography is a art of hiding information inside a picture. we hide the information in a cover media so that others may not notice the present of hidden information in our method we hide the Banking information inside the picture using a password and is stored in the database, when user types account no in the mobile, his concern details stored in the form of images in the system will be referred and by giving the correct password the information will be decrypted, finally the extracted information will be sent to the user's mobile.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Hardware Requirements
Any configuration with these minimum requirements…
P4 2.66 GHZ Processor
Monitor that supports min. of 600 x 800 resolution
512 MB SDRAM or higher for faster accessing
56KBPS modem or other for a faster net connection
About 100 MB free space in hard disc
Networking and addition systems for testing
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