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South African bank to replace 12m cards after employees stole master key

• rubatuga 6y ago
  “Main” key
  • tobyhinloopen 6y ago
    I laughed
• nBATzgA 6y ago
  This article about master keys, which also features the MasterCard [tm] logo, is written by the same journalist who called skeptics "detractors" in the git master affair.
  • ryanlol 6y ago
    “journalist” https://www.zdnet.com/article/unsecured-mongodb-databases-expose-kremlins-backdoor-into-russian-businesses/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/unsecured-mongodb-databases-ex...
• tibbydudeza 6y ago
  Way back when I worked at a bank we stored the TMK for the ATM's in the clear in Cobol source ... needless to say after an audit finding from Visa we soon got a HSM.
• cybert00th 6y ago
  Disclaimer: I'm a South African living in the UK and yes, I know I'm generalising - excessively. Jolly Sarf Africans! Light-fingered larcenists - can't leave them alone with anything these days! ;-)