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Title: Known NFC spoofing techniques probably wouldn't work with Apple Pay Post by: HCK on October 21, 2014, 03:00:24 am Known NFC spoofing techniques probably wouldn't work with Apple Pay
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Apple Pay is poised to turn how we pay for goods at a retail store on its head. The new Apple Pay system lets you make purchases with the cards in your iTunes Store account. When you bring your iPhone 6 near an NFC-equipped payment terminal, you’ll see your cards in Passbook, and you can authorize a transaction with the Touch ID fingerprint reader. That’s it, you’re done, and none of your sensitive credit card information was ever shared directly with the merchant.</p><p> Near-field communication, or NFC, isn’t a new technology, and hackers have had plenty of time to develop hardware that sniffs out the signals as they’re wirelessly transmitted from your phone to a reader. While some security experts I spoke to insist that these known vulnerabilities could apply to Apple Pay transactions, they also admitted that Apple’s use of one-time-use tokens instead of your actual credit card information would render these hacks pretty toothless.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2835754/known-nfc-spoofing-techniques-probably-wouldnt-work-with-apple-pay.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Known NFC spoofing techniques probably wouldn't work with Apple Pay (http://www.macworld.com/article/2835754/known-nfc-spoofing-techniques-probably-wouldnt-work-with-apple-pay.html#tk.rss_all) |