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Cyber criminals break Chip and PIN
It has bee revealed that cyber criminals have worked out a way to hack the Chip and PIN card system currently being introduced at businesses throughout the US and widely used throughout Europe. Five French citizens have been convicted of manipulating vulnerabilities in the system with a card-switching technique that included substituting the PIN on a [...]
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Starbucks mobile app hacked – a “Venti” problem
News has reached us that credit card hackers are targeting Starbucks gift card and mobile payment users and stealing from consumers’ credit cards. This new scam is so ingenious, the cyber criminals don’t even need to know the account number of the card they are hacking. By taking advantage of the Starbucks auto-reload feature, they [...]
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