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2008-02-28

How secure is your credit card?

Chip and PIN was supposed to help protect us all from card fraud. But Cambridge researchers, Steven Murdoch and Saar Drimer, have found a number of ways that the criminally-minded could crack it - and extract your account number and PIN and all the details needed to create a cloned card.




See also: PIN Entry Device (PED) vulnerabilities, Author's technical report
P.S. If you are a victim of a credit card fraud accused by your bank, show them this video!
P.P.S. Check also these articles about ATM skimmers:

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