BBC News | SCI/TECH | Security hole in cash machines (#)

  „Low Graphics Friday, 9 November, 2001, 00:08 GMT Security hole in cash machines Your Pin is vulnerable By BBC News Online technology correspondent Mark Ward A serious weakness has been discovered in the methods used by banks to protect the personal identification number (Pin) that lets you get money from a cash machine. A crooked bank manager could duplicate our work on a Monday and be off to Bermuda by Wednesday afternoon Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge Researchers from the University of Cambridge have found that the computer systems that check these numbers are valid are easy to defeat. They warn that unscrupulous insiders could exploit these weaknesses to raid customer accounts.“

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BBC News | AFRICA | Kenya's poison brew toll rises

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BBC News | BUSINESS | Chinese exporters seek new openings

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BBC News | HEALTH | Coffee 'fights allergies'

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BBC SPORT | EURO2000 | ENGLAND | Braun blasts England over fans

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