Apple and Visa downplay Express Transit security flaw in Apple Pay
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`The Apple Pay lock screen can be bypassed for any iPhone with a Visa card set up in transit mode. The contactless limit can also be bypassed allowing unlimited EMV contactless transactions from a locked iPhone.` What you need to know A new security flaw has been discovered in Apple`s Express Transit Apple Pay mode when using a Visa card. Research claims it can be used to make unauthorized payments and bypass the contactless limit. Apple and Visa have downplayed the issue. New security research claims that a flaw in Apple`s Express Transit Apple Pay mode can be used to make unauthorized Visa card payments and bypass the contactless limit. Researchers from the Computer Science departments at the Universities of Birmingham and Surrey in the UK have published their findings into how an active Man-in-the-Middle replay and relay attack could be used to bypass the Apple Pay lock screen for any iPhone with a Visa card set up in transit mode. The paper states: The Apple Pay lock s...