RESEARCHERS have warned of a potential vulnerability on iPhones when visa cards are used via
Experts at the
Using simple radio equipment, the team were able to trick the iPhone into thinking it was communicating with a transit gate when it was actually a payment reader used by shops, known among cyber experts as a "man-in-themiddle" attack. This was done by identifying a unique code broadcast by transit gates , which was then used to interfere with the signals between the iPhone and a shop card reader.
"This is a concern with a
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