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I would be worried letting someone read my card information via an Android phone. Malware would easily be able to sit in the background and intercept informatio
by robmcm 14y ago
I would be worried letting someone read my card information via an Android phone. Malware would easily be able to sit in the background and intercept information from the reader. At least on iOS you know any interception would have to be on transmition from the app to the server, which is not all client side.
Perhaps that's a little unfair. I guess as more and more apps and devices become avaliable for reading you card inforamtion more and more opportunities exist for stealing your info.
- bnr 14y agoHow about jailbroken iPhones? Do you check the vendor/platform of the CC reader in every shop before paying?
- robmcm 14y agoYes very true, and you could easily hack once of the physical readers they use now. Almost every shop I go into seems to have a different make or model of card reader. I guess with Android there is more change of the device owner not knownig it's there, it's much easier to say phish someone into installing malware onto an Android device than it is to jailbrake their iOS phone. I wouldn't like to be in the shoes of fraud departments right now...
- quarterto 14y agoIt's orders of magnitude harder to clone an EMV than a magnetic strip.
- PeterisP 14y agoA couple of years ago when I worked with card security, the current status was that while there were proof-of-concept examples of EMV cloning, at the time there weren't any cases at all (worldwide, for any bank) of real fraud with cloned EMV chips - it would be too expensive, and it's far simpler for criminals to simply find places which just check the magstripe and not the chip.