Monday, June 25, 2012

MC2 Post 1304 What About NFC Security What did Pacino Say in Donnie Brasco


What About NFC Security?  

"What did Pacino 
Say in Donnie Brasco?"





"Forget About It."

Android application reads credit card data 
over NFC



German security consultant Thomas Skora has published an Android application that is able to read details from contactless credit cards over a near field communication (NFC) connection. The open source application was available in Google's Play store for a while but has now been removed. Its code is still hosted on GitHub.



From:  http://www.h-online.com







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Similar Story from The H Security in 1 February 2012

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Hacker Extracts RFID Credit Card Details



The widespread use, especially in US credit cards, of RFID chips which can be read through clothing or wallets for contactless payments can lead to cards being read without the owners knowledge or permission. At the Shmoocon security conference held in Washington D.C., US business magazine Forbes reports that Kristin Paget impressively demonstrated the ability to read data on RFID chipped credit cards and make a payment that hadn't been authorised by the card owner. However, credit card manufacturers don't think that there is an increased risk.


From:  http://www.h-online.com/security/





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RFID: Radio Frequency Identification

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Global Payments: data theft compromised fewer than 1.5 million cards



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Report: Google Wallet's PIN fails to fully protect - Update



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Credit cards with EMV chips coming to the US


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EMV stands for Europay, MasterCard and VISA, a global standard for inter-operation of integrated circuit cards


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