‘Credit cards – Chip & PIN compromised?’
January 8, 2007 at 5:07 am
Chip and PIN technology used to authenticate credit and debit card transactions appears to have been compromised, in theory putting cardholders under increased risk of becoming victims of fraud. This follows news that researchers at Cambridge University have demonstrated how a chip and PIN terminal can be used to steal sensitive data.
How the researchers did it was to open up one of the supposedly tamper-proof terminals, replace the internal hardware with their own, then put it back together without any external evidence of tampering. Just to prove the machine was under their control they got it to play a game of Tetris.
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