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PIN Secure MultiMediaCard To Support The Secure Ubiquitous Information Society
White Papers Hitachi, Ltd.has now developed PIN Secure MultiMediaCard (PIN-SMMC), a flash memory card product that securely protects confidential content such as copyrighted material and personal and corporate data against unauthorized access.
[December 23, 2004, 23:00]
Cracking The Bluetooth PIN
White Papers Specifically, it describes a passive attack, in which an attacker can find the PIN used during the pairing process. The results show that a 4-digit PIN can be cracked in less than 0.3 sec on an old Pentium III 450MHz computer, and in 0.06 sec on a...
[November 10, 2005, 23:00]
Survey: UK Retailers May Miss Chip & PIN Deadline
Talkback Only a couple of retailers in my area have the Chip & Pin hardware installed but it does not fill me with confidence when I use it. Response times for the system are extremely poor which leaves the shopper standing in the queue feeling embarresed...
[May 19, 2004, 12:44]
Researchers Hack 'tamper-proof' PIN Terminals
News Researchers from Cambridge University have succeeded in capturing both PIN numbers and card details from supposedly tamper-proof PIN terminals. Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, overseen by Professor Ross Anderson, managed to hack two widely used PIN...
[February 26, 2008, 17:34]
Automation Of PIN Set-Up For Bluetooth Security In Inter-Wireless Technology
White Papers This paper presents a security scheme that aims at automating the PIN exchange procedure with the help of AAA infrastructure in WiFi-overlapped WPANs (Wireless Personal Access Network). Bluetooth technology provides peer-to-peer communications over...
[August 11, 2005, 0:00]
Survey: UK Retailers May Miss Chip & PIN Deadline
Talkback What incentive is there for a cardholder to have a PIN with the new type Chip and PIN credit card if they are never going to use it to withdraw 'expensive,' cash at an ATM? Is it compulsory or a legal requirement for a cardholder to accept a PIN...
[May 18, 2004, 17:05]
Shell's £1m Chip And PIN Fraud 'an Inside Job'
Talkback On April 26th the chip and PIN machine was stolen from my local Shell petrol station counter in the Bath road in Speen, Newbury. Apparently someonen has designed chip and pin machines in such a way that theycan be made to store all the customers...
[May 12, 2006, 13:37]
Researchers Devise Chip And PIN Crack
News Two Cambridge researchers have devised a relay attack with a hacked chip and PIN terminal that could enable attackers to bypass bank card security measures. Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, members of the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory...
[February 6, 2007, 6:00]
Shell's £1m Chip And PIN Fraud 'an Inside Job'
News A £1m chip and PIN fraud at a Shell petrol station was "an inside job", according to UK payments body Apacs. Shell suspended the use of chip and PIN payments at 600 UK petrol stations over the weekend as a precautionary measure following the theft...
[May 9, 2006, 16:10]
Royal Bank Of Scotland Rolls Out Chip And PIN
News The Royal Bank of Scotland is dishing out chip and PIN devices to its online banking customers. The chip and PIN card readers will be sent to customers free of charge and people will start receiving the devices this week.
[May 4, 2007, 10:34]
Barclays Rolls Out Chip And PIN For The Home
News Barclays is sending out chip and PIN terminals to more than half a million of its online banking customers. Customers using their online banking account to set up payments to third-party accounts will be sent a standalone terminal to use their card...
[April 19, 2007, 11:12]
Survey: UK Retailers May Miss Chip & PIN Deadline
News More than a quarter of UK retailers are wary of moving to the latest Chip & PIN smart card technology for plastic card transactions, according to a survey conducted by Retail Logic, a maker of payment processing software, and the Retail Bulletin...
[May 18, 2004, 15:49]
Launch Date Leaks For 939-pin Athlon
News Publicly, AMD has consistently maintained that it would launch the 939-pin version of its Athlon processor in the second quarter of 2004. Working versions of the 939-pin Athlon were on show at CeBIT last week, indicating that samples are already...
[March 25, 2004, 16:45]
Modern Computing On The Head Of A Pin
News They don't make them like this anymore. We cast an eye back over the ever-shrinking transistor, the invention that became the cornerstone of computing and the modern world. This is one of the first transistors, a replica of which has been donated...
[January 29, 2008, 11:49]
Wireless Firms Pin Hopes On Games And Heroes
News In the mobile phone game Gladiator, players can program the barbarian, Garr, to ready his spiked mace, yell, "You stink as the entrails of the donkey! and lunge into an opponent standing nearby on the ancient Roman Colosseum's sandy grounds.
[January 31, 2001, 12:51]
Microsoft: Identity Challenge Will Have Many Solutions
News While Chip and PIN has many advantages, operational issues surrounding the technology making it unlikely to prevail as a worldwide standard for identification authentication, according to Peter Cullen, chief privacy strategist for Microsoft this...
[July 8, 2005, 16:50]
Barclays And NatWest Trail Lloyds TSB Trial
Talkback NatWest require a customer number/birthdate combination, a pin number with variable selected digits and a password with variable selected alphanumerics for full access. This is much tougher than Barclays ibank access which simply requires a...
[April 27, 2006, 10:35]
Power Drive Protection Interrupt On The TMS320C24x
White Papers The Power Drive Protection Interrupt (PDPINT) pin is a safety feature that is built into all TMS320C24xE DSPs. When this pin is driven low externally, all the PWM outputs are put in a high impedance state, thereby protecting the electrical drive...
[December 24, 2003, 23:00]
New Technology 'making ID Theft Easier'
News Chip and PIN technology and ID cards will make it easier for criminals to engage in fraud and identity theft instead of tackling the problem, according to a leading criminologist. Dr Emily Finch, researcher at the University of East Anglia, claims...
[September 6, 2005, 9:10]
Bluetooth Needs Long PINS For Security
News Bluetooth, the wireless connection used on PDAs and phones, is not safe unless you use an eight-digit PIN number to secure devices, users have been warning. For security, Bluetooth devices will not communicate until they have 'paired' -- a one-off...
[June 27, 2005, 17:55]
