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same key across all terminals

2015-12-22 18:47:06.239332+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

European Credit Card Terminals Are Plagued with Serious Vulnerabilities:

The researchers were able to do this by extracting the key used for signing messages from their test terminals. But it turns out every single terminal provided by a payment processor uses the same key.

Dafuq? And then it gets worse!

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