The first ever HantsLUG Christmas Lecture was held on Saturday 1
December in the Zepler Building at Southampton University.
The speaker was Mike Bond (
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mkb23/), of the
Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University, where he has been
researching security in the banking system for 10 or more years.
He gave us a talk on "Hacking bank cards: 10 years of tools." – a
subject that sounded distinctly illegal to me. In fact the work on
computer security done at Cambridge has been an important tool for
improving the complex security measures that banks need to use.
Although publicly criticising any attempts to break their systems, the
banks do in fact cooperate with this type of research because it helps
them to develop better ones.
Mike went into a lot of technical detail about how PIN numbers and ATMs
work – and how it's possible in some circumstances to bypass the
security entirely.
Although only about ten members were present, the talk was well received
and provoked some interesting questions and discussion.
The lecture was followed by dinner at the Mercure Dolphin Hotel in
Southampton, where a select group indulged in food and wine and some
quality conversation.
Hopefully this was just the first of a new tradition of Christmas
Lectures at HantsLUG.
cheers
Chris
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Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK
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