App Info : Hacker Demos Android App That Can Wirelessly Steal And Use Credit Cards' Data - Forbes

Eddie Lee's Android phone, displaying data
it has wirelessly read from his credit card. I've blocked the credit card number on the phone's screen in orange. The symbol of nested arcs on the card shows that it one of the 100 million RFID-enabled cards in circulation.

Smartphone payment systems like Google Wallet give Android users the futuristic ability to use their phones to make payments with their credit cards. Research Eddie Lee has taken that trick a step further: Using an Android phone to make payments from a credit card that belongs to an unwitting stranger.

In a talk at the Defcon hacker conference in
Las Vegas Friday, Lee demonstrated an Android
software tool called NFCProxy that’s capable
of both reading and “replaying” data from
contactless credit cards–any of the common
payment cards with embedded RFID chips that
allow payments at retail outlets’ wireless
point-of-sale devices like these.


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