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"It's a Privacy Nightmare" |
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Fox 13 Tampa - 01/27/12
It is a question that was completely inconceivable a few  years ago:
Can a cellular phone steal the numbers from a credit card?
Walt Augustinowicz insists the answer is a resounding yes.
"It's a privacy nightmare," said the identity theft whistleblower who is speaking out about a particular concern involving the latest crop of mobile phones.
Augustinowicz has previously exposed the vulnerability of Radio Frequency ID, or RFID, in select credit cards.
RFID cards essentially transmit the account number a short distance. Augustinowicz rigged up an iPad-sized scanner and was able to read people's credit card numbers without even touching their wallets.
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Hackers Demo |
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 Forbes - 01/30/12
Pull out your credit card and flip it over. If the back is marked with the words "PayPass," "Blink," that triangle of nested arcs that serves as the universal symbol for wireless data or a few other obscure icons, Kristin Paget says it's vulnerable to an uber-stealthy form of pickpocketing. As she showed on a Washington D.C. stage Saturday, she can read all the data she needs to make a fraudulent transaction off that card with just a few hundred dollars worth of equipment, and do it invisibly through your wallet, purse, or pocket. Click here to read more...
While Identity Stronghold is usually the one demonstrating how easy it is to scan these cards, now there are additional researchers saying the same thing.
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