【雅思精读】雅思考试阅读练习及答案详解（4）

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1.雅思阅读材料

Study Finds Web Antifraud Measure Ineffective

February 5, 2007 New York

1. Internet security experts have long known that simple passwords do not

fully defend online bank accounts from determined fraud artists. Now a study

suggests that a popular secondary security measure provides little additional

protection.

2.The study, produced jointly by researchers at Harvard and the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, looked at a technology called site-authentication

images. In the system, currently used by financial institutions like Bank of

America, ING Direct and Vanguard, online banking customers are asked to select

an image, like a dog or chess piece, that they will see every time they log in

to their account.

3.The idea is that if customers do not see their image, they could be at a

fraudulent Web site, dummied up to look like their bank’s, and should not enter

their passwords.

4.The Harvard and M.I.T. researchers tested that hypothesis. In October, they

brought 67 Bank of America customers in the Boston area into a controlled

environment and asked them to conduct routine online banking activities, like

looking up account balances. But the researchers had secretly withdrawn the

images.

5.Of 60 participants who got that far into the study and whose results could

be verified, 58 entered passwords anyway. Only two chose not to log on, citing

security concerns.

6.“The premise is that site-authentication images increase security because

customers will not enter their passwords if they do not see the correct image,”

said Stuart Schechter, a computer scientist at the M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory.

“From the study we learned that the premise is right less than 10 percent of the

time.”

7.He added: “If a bank were to ask me if they should deploy it, I would say

no, wait for something better,” he said.

8.The system has some high-power supporters in the financial services world,

many trying to comply with new online banking regulations. In 2005, the Federal

Financial Institutions Examination Council, an interagency body of federal

banking regulators, determined that passwords alone did not effectively thwart

intruders like identity thieves.

9.It issued new guidelines, asking financial Web sites to find better ways

for banks and customers to identify each other online. January 2007 was set as

the compliance date, though the council has yet to begin enforcing the

mandate.

10.Banks immediately knew what they did not want to do: ask customers to

download new security software, or carry around hardware devices that feed them

PIN codes they can use to authenticate their identities. Both solutions would

add an extra layer of security but, the banks believed, detract from the

convenience of online banking.

11.The image system, introduced in 2004 by a Silicon Valley firm called

PassMark Security, offered banks a pain-free addition to their security

arsenals. Bank of America was among the first to adopt it, in June 2005, under

the brand name SiteKey, asking its 21 million Web site users to select an image

from thousands of possible choices and to choose a unique phrase they would see

every time they logged in.

12.SiteKey “gives our customers a fairly easy way of authenticating the Bank

of America Web site,” said Sanjay Gupta, an e-commerce executive at the bank.

“It was very well received.”

13.The Harvard and M.I.T. researchers, however, found that most online

banking customers did not notice when the SiteKey images were absent. When

respondents logged in during the study, they saw a site maintenance message on

the screen where their image and phrases should have been pictured. The error

message also had a conspicuous spelling mistake, further suggesting something

fishy.

14.Mr. Gupta of Bank of America said he was not troubled by the results of

the survey, and stressed that SiteKey had made the bank’s Web site more secure.

He also said that the system was only a single part of a larger security

blanket. “It’s not like we’re betting the bank on SiteKey,” he said.

15.Most financial institutions, like Bank of America, have other ways to tell

if a customer is legitimate. The banks often drop a small software program,

called a cookie, onto a user’s PC to associate the computer with the customer.

If the customer logs in from another machine, he may be asked personal

questions, like his mother’s maiden name.

16.Rachna Dhamija, the Harvard researcher who conducted the study, points out

that swindlers can use their dummy Web sites to ask customers those personal

questions. She said that the study demonstrated that site-authentication images

are fundamentally flawed and, worse, might actually detract from security by

giving users a false sense of confidence.

17.RSA Security, the company that bought PassMark last year, “has a lot of

great data on how SiteKey instills trust and confidence and good feelings in

their customers,” Ms. Dhamija said. “Ultimately that might be why they adopted

it. Sometimes the appearance of security is more important than security

itself.”(811 words)

2.雅思阅读题目

Questions 1-5

Do the following statements agree with the information given in the passage?

Please write

TRUE if the statement agrees with the writer

FALSE if the statement does not agree with the writer

NOT GIVEN if there is no information about this in the passage

1.According to internet security experts, secondary security measures provide

little additional protection against fraud.

2.In the Harvard and MIT study, two subjects didn’t log on without seeing the

correct pictures.

3.According to Schechter, more than 90% of online banking customers studied

logged on without seeing the right pictures.

4.The image system is the only security measure that the banks mentioned in

the passage have currently.

5.Bank of America is the first bank that adopted the image system.

Questions 6-13

Answer the following questions or complete the following sentences by

choosing NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

6.What is ING Direct and Vanguard?

7.What might online banking customers be cheated to give at a fraudulent Web

site?

8.What may stop online banking customers from using new verification

methods?

9.The key to online banking security is to verify the ______ of

customers.

10.Where is PassMark Security located?

11.What is the reason why SiteKey is popular among online banking

customers?

12.What was used instead of images in the Harvard and M.I.T. study?

13.How many security methods are mentioned in this passage?

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