U.K. researchers devise smart-card hack

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Two Cambridge researchers have created a scenario in which hackers can bypass the latest bank-card security measures.

Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, members of the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, demonstrated last month how they could modify a supposedly tamper-proof chip-and-PIN payment terminal to play Tetris.

They have now extended the hack to demonstrate how they can compromise the system by relaying card information between a genuine card and a fake one.

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