Interesting juxtaposition of news items. A week or so ago, Visa recommended weighing card readers, in order to detect those that had been tampered with.
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Visa-recommends-weighing- card-readers-to-detect-tampering-1035293.html A couple of days later, saw a report on the latest ATM skimming scam: shimming. This is when the bad guys insert their own chip, that sits on top of the contact pad for "chip and pin" cards: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/63544 ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true. victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://www.infosecbc.org/links 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.
