WASHINGTON ? Personallyidentifiable information baked into the magnetic strip on your creditcard can be easily hijacked by hackers using lightweight tools,according to a warning from RFID security guru Adam Laurie.
At the Black Hat DC briefings here, Laurie announced the release of CHaP.py, a test program created to read chip and PIN credit cards using the EMV standard. EMV, named for the three companies that developed the standard ?Europay, MasterCard and VISA ? handles authentication of credit anddebit card payments.
Laurie, who works as chief security officer and director of U.K.-basedThe Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd., plans to integrate CHaP.py into the RFIDIOt, the popular open-source python library for exploring RFID devices.
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