Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Urs Hengartner, an associate professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, was quoted in a  regarding sequencing fraud and credit card security.Ìý
In the investigation, Hengartner explains that most Canadian credit cards use the same eight numbers at the beginning of every card issued as a bank identifier and there are only a certain number of possible combinations for the remaining eight digits. As a result, he explains that it is possible to figure out a person's credit card number but that banking security measures such as needing a PIN, billing address, and CSV or credit card security number are needed before purchases can be processed.Ìý
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