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Distributed Guessing Attack Reels in Payment Card Data (Threatpost)

2016-12-05 19:10

A research paper describes vulnerabilities enabling distributed guessing attacks which allow an attacker to collect payment card data across a number of sites without triggering alerts.

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http://threatpost.com/distributed-guessing-attack-reels-in-payment-card-data/122251/

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