Hacker's Demo Shows How Easily Credit Cards Can Be Read Through Clothes And Wallets

Some blank credit cards, a $50 RFID reader and $300 card magnetizing device: all a hacker needs for contactless credit card fraud. (Click to enlarge) Pull out your credit card and flip it over. If the back is marked with the words "PayPass," "Blink," that triangle of nested arcs that serves

Hackers Can Read Credit Cards Through Your Wallet

Pull out your credit card and flip it over. If the back is marked with the words ?PayPass,? ?Blink,? that triangle of nested arcs that serves as the universal symbol for wireless data or a few other obscure icons, Kristin Paget says it?s vulnerable to an uber-stealthy form of pickpocketing. As she showed on a [...]

‘Loyalty marketers failed to innovate fast enough'

Since the launch of a Canadian Air Miles coalition loyalty programme in 1992, LoyaltyOne Rewards has come a long way. And since 1990, Colloquy (now a LoyaltyOne company), has been in the business of research, publishing and education on loyalty.

Scrambling for time, Shahrizat sues Rafizi, Zuraidah over NFC in alleged bid to gag them

In a move that has been widely anticipated, Umno minister Shahrizat Jalil finally filed a RM100 million defamation suit against PKR leaders Rafizi Ramli and Zuraidah Kamaruddin for claiming she had misused a federal loan meant for the National Feedlot Centre.

Gillard: just a matter of when

The Australia Day debacle is emblematic of a Prime Minister who can't take a trick. Read more on the blog...