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Saturday, 8 December 2012

Large Scale Attack on mTAN

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The mobile variant of the Zeus malware has stolen big amounts of money. This has been expected . The banks must understand that in a world...
Thursday, 13 September 2012

Severe Security Flaw in ATMs

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Ross Anderson has published a severe security flaw in some ATM machines. The nonce sent from the ATM to the card in the process of authenti...
Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Online Payment Processors Don't Count Retries

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A german TV station wanted to find out what happens if they enter random CVV numbers into the checkout page of e-commerce sites. Five out of...
Sunday, 15 July 2012

Attack against EMV Terminals

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The German security company SRLabs claims that that they found several vulnerabilities in popular EMV terminals, including a buffer overrun...
Monday, 10 October 2011

German Federal Trojan Suspected

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The german hacker club CCC claims that they found a trojan malware used by german federal police ( german source ). It seems that the softwa...
Sunday, 4 September 2011

Progress at Quantum Computing

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NIST scientists have prepared a single qubit with an error rate, under 10 -4 , that is low enough to enable error correction. Because d...
Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Experimental attack on mTAN

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F-Secure reports (link in german) that the trojan SpyEye has a new attack on the mTAN online banking security system. Users of infected PCs...
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Ullrich Martini
holds a PhD in theoretical physics. He works with smart cards and security tokens since 2001 for the german security printer and smart card vendor G&D
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