{"id":16540,"date":"2016-12-06T16:29:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T21:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16540"},"modified":"2016-12-06T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T21:29:09","slug":"distributed-visa-cvc-guessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/06\/distributed-visa-cvc-guessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Distributed Visa CVC Guessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/security\/2016\/12\/05\/credit-card-hackers\/\">Juan Buis<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewabernathy\/status\/805930584161665024\">Andrew Abernathy<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/security\/2016\/12\/05\/credit-card-hackers\/\"><p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/eprint.ncl.ac.uk\/file_store\/production\/230123\/19180242-D02E-47AC-BDB3-73C22D6E1FDB.pdf\">research from the University of Newcastle<\/a>, there&rsquo;s a gaping hole in credit card security that makes it easy for hackers to retrieve sensitive information. The researchers discovered that if guesses for the card&rsquo;s CVC number are spread out between a lot of different websites, the card&rsquo;s security systems aren&rsquo;t triggered and the owner isn&rsquo;t notified that a fraudulent activity might be taking place. The video above shows it only takes six seconds for a specially designed toolkit to reveal a card&rsquo;s secure code.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Only Visa cards are susceptible to the security flaw, as other card issuers like MasterCard track the hacker&rsquo;s guessing efforts across different websites. The Visa ecosystem, however, isn&rsquo;t setup to take actions on multiple websites into account.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Buis (via Andrew Abernathy): According to research from the University of Newcastle, there&rsquo;s a gaping hole in credit card security that makes it easy for hackers to retrieve sensitive information. The researchers discovered that if guesses for the card&rsquo;s CVC number are spread out between a lot of different websites, the card&rsquo;s security systems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[169,48,96],"class_list":["post-16540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-payments","tag-security","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16541,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16540\/revisions\/16541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}