{"id":149875,"date":"2025-10-28T16:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/149875\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:39:15","slug":"surrey-study-finds-contactless-payment-security-loopholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/149875\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey study finds contactless payment security loopholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Features added to contactless payments to boost convenience include allowing offline transactions, transport modes that let commuters move quickly through barriers without unlocking their phones, and region-specific rules on how a PIN is input for high-value transactions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the study found these features could lead to insecurities and, in turn, the possibility to make fraudulent payments. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In practice, researchers were able to demonstrate ways to trick terminals into accepting a plastic card when only a phone should have been allowed, or to process payments above a contactless limit without PIN or biometric checks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In one case, a payment terminal was made to accept a fraudulent \u00a325,000 payment, the University of Surrey said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Features added to contactless payments to boost convenience include allowing offline transactions, transport modes that let commuters move&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[18,19,17,279,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-149875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115452783004644603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}