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Citibank Tries to Hush ATM Crypto Vulnerability |
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The court's order of 21 February 2003, gagging public disclosure of Citibank's crypto vulnerabilities:
http://www.ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/citibank_order.pdf
18 February 2003
The vulnerabilities came to light during a court case involving 'phantom' ATM transactions that users deny making but that banks still charge to customers accounts because they claim their systems are secure.
Source: Cryptome
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By John Leyden
Posted: 21/02/2003 at 13:34 GMT
Cambridge researchers have documented a worrying PIN cracking technique against the hardware security modules commonly used by bank ATMs.
Mike Bond and Piotr Zielinski have published a paper detailing how a complex mathematical attack can yield a PIN in an average of 15 guesses. By design, it shouldn't be possible to guess a four-digit pin in less than an average of 5,000 attempts.
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