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Google Wallet PINs easily stolen from rooted devices

10
Feb
2012

Joshua Rubin, a security engineer with zvelo, disclosed his research into the (in)security of Google Wallet. Google Wallet is a new near field communication (NFC) electronic wallet that allows customers to pay for everyday purchases by entering a PIN on their Android smartphone and tapping it on a receiver, similar to Mastercard PayPass.What Rubin discovered […]

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Cracking Open Your (Google) Wallet

10
Feb
2012

We suggested earlier that instead of going after the Secure Element chip and the information it keeps safe, attackers would go after the weaker point of the Google Wallet app. Security researcher Joshua Rubin has now created a proof-of-concept app, Google Wallet Cracker, that can recover the Google Wallet PIN on a rooted phone.Once attackers […]

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