Tag: credit card
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The Internet of Bad Things, Observed
In his VB2015 keynote address, Ross Anderson described attacks against EMV cards. The VB2015 opening keynote by Ross Anderson could hardly have been more timely. In his talk “The Internet of Bad Things, Observed”, the Cambridge professor looked at various attacks against the EMV standard for payment cards — attacks that have been used to…
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VB2014 preview: Swipe away, we’re watching you
Hong Kei Chan and Liang Huang describe the various aspects and the evolution of point-of-sale malware. In the weeks running up to VB2014 (the 24th Virus Bulletin International Conference), we are looking at some of the research that will be presented at the event. Today, we look at the paper ‘ Swipe away, we’re watching…