Visa security flaws enable credit card numbers and expiry dates to be guessed, claim researchers

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Visa credit card security fails to identify brute force attack conducted over different websites

A lack of defences against 'brute force' attacks means that fraudsters can the numbers and expiry dates of Visa credit cards without triggering a security response. That is the conclusion of res...

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