Touted as a safer solution to magnetic stripe cards, it seems the chip-and-pin (or EMV) counterpart might not be as secure as we once thought. After retailers around the globe made the switch to the ...
Security researchers are eager to poke holes in the chip-embedded credit and debit cards that have arrived in Americans' mailboxes over the last year and a half. Although the cards have been in use ...
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A security vulnerability in the newest generation of ATMs can be exploited to make them give away tens of thousands of dollars in cash, despite chip and PIN systems being designed to prevent criminals ...
We’ve been told that EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) chip-equipped cards have an added layer of security, making them more secure and harder to clone than cards with only a magnetic stripe. But ...
It sounds like something from an adrenaline-pumping spy thriller. You know, like Spy Kids 3-D. A new study from researchers at the University of California, San Diego, posits that thermal imaging ...
A computer intrusion into a Citibank server that processes ATM withdrawals led to two Brooklyn men making hundreds of fraudulent withdrawals from New York City cash machines in February, pocketing at ...