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Hacker Demos Android App That Can Wirelessly Steal And Use Credit Cards’ Data

Smartphone payment systems like 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 [...]
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How mobile phones are becoming the new credit card [Infographic]

Technology : The Next Web Blog (2 years ago)

As smartphone vendors and mobile operators shift their strategies to incorporate wireless payment technologies into mobile phones, consumers will soon be able to drop their wallet and carry every piece of important payment informati... Read Post

Google Wallet Pin Vulnerable To Brute Forcing

Technology : Ghacks.net (last year)

Google Wallet is the name of Google’s recently launched cell phone-based credit card payment system. The system uses Near Field Communication (NFC) to exchange data between the cell phone (that is containing the user’s financial inf... Read Post

Groupon’s Android app for merchants now lets users accept payments through their smartphones

Technology : The Next Web Blog (4 months ago)

Groupon has updated its Merchants app for Android with Groupon Payments, the company’s Square competitor which allows users to accept credit card payments via their phones and an attached card... Keep reading ? Read Post


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