Security News > 2015 > October > Criminals hacked chip-and-PIN system by perfecting researchers' PoC attack (Help Net Security)

2015-10-20 13:40
When in 2010 a team of computer scientists at Cambridge University demonstrated how the chip and PIN system used on many modern payment cards can be bypassed by making the POS system accept any PIN as...
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