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Software to Crack Chip & PIN
James
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in Credit cards
Software to crack the encryption used by credit card chip-and-PIN readers has been publicly released on the web.
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He's a clever man making it easier for fraudsters!0
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Software to crack the encryption used by credit card chip-and-PIN readers has been publicly released on the web.
Click here for full article.
It doesn't crack the encryption, it makes use of already known vulnerabilities and expands upon them to build a trusted display unit.0 -
It is no coincidence that about the same time chip & pin launched, sales of EPOS units powered by Linux running GnuCash went through the roof. This is down to the fact that Gnucash is open source so the code relating to card payments could be easily modified to scan-in and store the info from the chip, and attach to it the pin number. Thus allowing the dodgy dealers to make 'purchases' of small values with other peoples cards.Never Knowingly Understood.
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