Criminals have been known to hide miniature cameras inside ATMs, making them difficult to find. These devices are typically ...

Whether you’re pulling cash from an ATM or shopping online with your credit card, you could be at risk for theft. One threat ...

[David Cranor] has found a way to fool a magnetic stripe reader using a hand-wound electromagnet and an iPod. The data on a card is read and stored on a computer, then encoded as a WAV file using ...

A credit card skimming device reads the magnetic stripe on your credit or debit card when you slide it into a card reader at an ATM, gas pump or other point of sale terminal. "The magnetic stripe ...

This is a proof of concept magnetic stripe card emulator. Adron embedded a thin strip of metal into track 2 of the magnetic stripe. The ends of that strip are wrapped with thin copper wire to ...

Magnetic stripe credit cards carry a high risk of fraud through skimmers that criminals add to card readers at ATMs, retail stores and gas stations. These devices “skim” and record your card ...

A small length of magnetic tape adhered to credit cards, badges, permits, passes and tokens. The tape is read by magnetic stripe readers incorporated into ATMs, identification readers and payment ...