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Re: [Full-disclosure] Is Your Online Bank Vulnerable To Currency Rounding Attacks?



On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM, ACROS Security Lists <lists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Many online banks we've reviewed have been found to be vulnerable to the 
> "currency
> rounding attack". What's special about this attack? Not much, except that it 
> seems to
> be perfectly legal and allows one to make tens of thousands of EUR/USD per 
> day. Read
> about it in our blog and help your banks avoid it:
>
> http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2012/01/is-your-online-bank-vulnerable-to.html
>
> or
>
> http://bit.ly/yp4idv
I believe the term is "arbitrage" (not rounding attacks).

Jeff

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