Wczoraj na BugtraQ pokazasł się post informujący o próbie zablokowania
przez Citibank informacji o potencjalnej dziurze w bezpieczeństwie kart
płatniczych.
Chodzi o to, że pracownicy Citibanku mogą w banalny sposób (jak twierdzi
autor) zdobyć PIN-y do kart płatniczych klientów Citibank.

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>Citibank is trying to get an order in the High Court today gagging
>public disclosure of crypto vulnerabilities:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/citibank_gag
.pdf
>
>I have written to the judge opposing the order:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/users/rja14/citibank_res
ponse.pdf
>
>The background is that my student Mike Bond has discovered some
>really
>horrendous vulnerabilities in the cryptographic equipment
>commonly
>used to protect the PINs used to identify customers to cash
>machines:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/TechReports/UCAM-CL-TR-560.p
df
>
>These vulnerabilities mean that bank insiders can almost
>trivially
>find out the PINs of any or all customers. The discoveries
>happened
>while Mike and I were working as expert witnesses on a
>`phantom
>withdrawal' case.
>
>The vulnerabilities are also scientifically
>interesting:
>
> http://cryptome.org/pacc.htm
>
>For the last couple of years or so there has been a
>rising tide of
>phantoms. I get emails with increasing frequency
>from people all over
>the world whose banks have debited them for ATM
>withdrawals that they
>deny making. Banks in many countries simply
>claim that their systems
>are secure and so the customers must be
>responsible. It now looks like
>some of these vulnerabilities have also been
>discovered by the bad
>guys. Our courts and regulators should make
>the banks fix their
>systems, rather than just lying about
>security and dumping the costs
>on the customers.
>
>Curiously enough, Citi was also the bank
>in the case that set US law
>on phantom withdrawals from ATMs (Judd v
>Citibank). They lost. I hope
>that's an omen, if not a precedent ...
>
>Ross Anderson



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