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Security hole in cash machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Monty Solomon)
Fri Nov 9 16:25:48 2001
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Friday, 9 November, 2001, 00:08 GMT
Security hole in cash machines
By BBC News Online technology correspondent Mark Ward
A serious weakness has been discovered in the methods used by banks
to protect the number that lets you get money from a cash machine.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have found that the
computer systems which check that these numbers are valid are easy to
defeat.
They warn that unscrupulous insiders could exploit these weaknesses
to raid customer accounts.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1645000/1645552.stm
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