Yet more chip and pin stories. Yeah, this is old hat by now, but this is kind of neat in that the bad guys actually got a card reader to "phone home" by putting cell phone gear inside it:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/10/organized_crime_doctors_chip_and_pin_ machines/ (OK, we've got a whole bunch of doctored readers: surely somebody can find the number that they were calling?) Also, a BBC piece, in two parts on YouTube. (Watch for Ross Anderson: the piece must be a little old since a scan of his office shows "Security Engineering," first edition.) This one shows the banks in a pretty bad light: rather cavalier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7QzOcZAwbg http://youtube.com/watch?v=pHdX3ZYEvXw ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), Metaphysics victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ _______________________________________________ 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.
