{"id":875,"date":"2012-03-25T17:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T17:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lessradiation.co.uk\/?p=875"},"modified":"2012-03-25T17:41:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T17:41:43","slug":"contactless-barclaycards-have-a-risk-of-online-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/03\/25\/contactless-barclaycards-have-a-risk-of-online-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Contactless Barclaycards have a risk of online fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s possible to read out the details of a recent Barclaycard without making a physical connection to it &#8211; according to Channel4 News.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Barclaycard includes a contactless RFID type chip, which works in a similar way to an Oyster card (UK London Underground Travel Card). Some of the latest mobiles can read these chips too. It&#8217;s now been shown that the card number, expiry date &#038; card holders name can be read just by holding a smartphone against someones wallet. Those details can then be used to order something through Amazon, even though you still don&#8217;t have the 3 digit security code.<\/p>\n<p>Full article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/millions-of-barclays-card-users-exposed-to-fraud\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s possible to read out the details of a recent Barclaycard without making a physical connection to it &#8211; according to Channel4 News. The latest Barclaycard includes a contactless RFID type chip, which works in a similar way to an Oyster card (UK London Underground Travel Card). Some of the latest mobiles can read these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}