Thursday, February 08, 2007

Researchers devise chip and PIN crack / ZDNet UK , 6 Feb 2007
http://digbig.com/4rgks
Tom Espiner
"Two Cambridge researchers have devised a relay attack with a hacked chip and PIN terminal that could enable attackers to bypass bank card security measures. Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, members of the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, demonstrated in January how they could modify a supposedly tamper-proof chip and PIN terminal to play Tetris. They have now extended the hack to demonstrate how they can compromise the system by relaying card information between a fake card and a genuine one."