UK Channel 4 News Demo – Contactless Payment Cards – viaForensics : ‘During an interview with the Channel 4 correspondent we were able to touch his wallet with an Android phone while he was distracted and capture his credit card details.’ … ‘viaForensics found that there are many cards in circulation, including recently issued cards, which are giving up the full card number, expiry, surname and initials.’ Barclays security fail hits the headlines (via Tony Finch)
(tags: channel-4 news barclays-bank uk banking nfc wireless android via-forensics contactless-cards via:fanf)The lessons I learnt from my iPhone mugging | Benjamin Cohen on Technology : some good tips on iPhone security settings, in particular disabling the ability to turn off location services via Restrictions. I should do this
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