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New phishing tool - scotch tape?
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 21:06:11 -0800
Apparently German credit card transactions have hit a glitch over one of the (seemingly many) Y2K+10 bugs. However, what I found most interesting was that the new chip cards seem to have a fail safe mode. If they can't read the chip, they happily drop back to swipe card mode. According to http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/0,1518,670433,00.html (sorry, I couldn't find an English translation), retailers are now keeping a roll of tape beside the cash registers in order to hack the cards so that they work properly ... ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. - Edward Abbey victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/NoticeBored http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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