EMV chip cards have grown exponentially and legacy magnetic stripe cards will soon be nearly gone. Your complimentary guest ...

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 ...

[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 ...

If you believe you’re the victim of card present fraud, notify your card issuer immediately. It will investigate the matter ...

By one estimate, card skimming devices costs consumers and financial institutions roughly $1 billion each year.

When you swipe a magnetic stripe, your payment and personal information ... Beware, though, this protection may not always extend to debit cards, so check with your card’s issuer to verify ...