On passing to Las Vegas Forum Black Hat, held in conjunction with the conference Defcon, the company broke the Aperture Labs revealing payment system Square, functioning based on mobile devices Apple.
Square releases miniature digital readers for credit cards. With their help, the owner of the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or smartphones running Android could transform the gadget into almost a full ATM. At the same time very "reader" is free, but with Square peredennyh money, the user pays a fee payment of 2.75%.
Specialists from the Aperture Labs drew attention to the fact that the reader is inserted into the audio jack of smartphones, from which it became clear that credit card numbers are transmitted in the form of audio files. have written a program that performs encoding them. At the Black Hat conference, they showed a laptop with their software and a tablet with a reader iPad Square. To steal money from the system enough to know number of cards: the attacker taking the money polzovtelya to your account "pays" only the position of 2.75%.
Agree, it is much more convenient to the traditional scheme, which involves weaning the owner of the credit card and PIN selection. It is reported that Square quickly integrates into your reader data encryption.
