{"id":43517,"date":"2012-02-16T09:09:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T07:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=43517"},"modified":"2012-02-16T09:10:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T07:10:59","slug":"google-wallet-gets-security-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/43517-google-wallet-gets-security-fix.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Wallet gets security fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> Wallet prepaid service has been re-enabled after a security fix designed to address hacking concerns was rolled out.<\/p>\n<p>The service downtime follows two exploits that were discovered last week. The first allowed hackers to bypass PIN protection on rooted devices, while the second did not require a handset to be rooted, putting all Wallet users at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Google maintained that the service was secure; however it decided to disable the prepaid card service as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>The security fix was not enough for zVelo, a security firm who claims that the new fix does not protect users who have rooted their devices.<\/p>\n<p>Google argues that users with rooted devices do not use Google Wallet, however zVelo is open to the possibility that hackers would first steal an <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> based phone, then root the device to gain access to the Google Wallet account.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/02\/15\/google-wallet-prepaid-service-re-enabled-after-security-fix\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A security fix has addressed Google wallet hacking concerns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":25053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,167,4910,8921],"class_list":["post-43517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-google","tag-google-wallet","tag-zvelo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43519,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43517\/revisions\/43519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}