MASTERCARD

Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2021
Boffins show PIN bypass attack Mastercard and Maestro contactless payments

Boffins from the Swiss ETH Zurich university demonstrated PIN bypass attack on contactless cards from Mastercard and Maestro. A group of researchers from the Swiss ETH Zurich university has discovered a vulnerability that allowed them to bypass PIN codes on contactless cards from Mastercard and Maestro. Technically the researchers performed a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack between […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2019
Mastercard data breach affected Priceless Specials loyalty program

Mastercard disclosed a data breach that impacted customer data from the company’s Priceless Specials loyalty program. The American multinational financial services corporation notified the data breach to the German and Belgian Data Protection Authorities. The data leaked online includes customers’ names, payment card numbers, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, gender, and dates of birth. “The Belgian Data […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2012
Zeus P2P variant against Facebook,Hotmail,Yahoo & Google Mail

The experts of Trusteer firm have discovered a new variant Zeus malware responsible of  a series of attacks against principal internet service providers. The variant carried out attacks using the P2P network architecture targeting users of Facebook, Hotmail and Yahoo and  Google Mail. What is Zeus? The Zeus Trojan is one of most notourios malware […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2012
UPGRADE – VISA, MASTERCARD and GPN breach

The day is come, yesterday morning as planned Global Payments Inc., the Atlanta-based credit and debit card processor that recently announced a breach that exposed fewer than 1.5 million card accounts, held a conference call to discuss about the breach and its impacts. Again Krebson Security Blog is the more accredited source in my opinion, they […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2012
VISA & MASTERCARD breach raises Security doubts on standard compliance

The Krebs on Security blog reported that there has been a security breach at Global Payments that “may involve more than 10 million compromised card numbers.”  We are facing with a massive breach that could impact more over 10 million compromised card numbers, for this reason VISA and MasterCard are alerting banks across US about […]