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October 14, 2008

Your Daily Gloom

Bruce Schneier, New Chip-and-Pin Scam in the UK:

The readers were hacked when they were were built, “either during the manufacturing process at a factory in China, or shortly after they came off the production line.” It’s being called a “supply chain hack.”
Sophisticated stuff, and yet another demonstration that these all-computer security systems are full of risks.
BTW, what’s it worth to rig an election?

Posted by Michael : October 14, 2008 04:02 PM | Politics: US: 2008 Elections | TechnoLinks

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Now "that" is scary stuff, after reading all the comments on Schneier.com it appears the data was sent via embedded GSM units in to Pakistan. That's pretty hard to defend against, and who knows how many more of these units are floating around.

This attack could be used on any card swipe devices including secure card swipe entries etc.

Very frightening.

Posted by: Ted at October 15, 2008 02:20 PM