Skimming scams have continued to be on the rise, according to data analytics firm FICO, which noted a 96% increase in such ...

[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 ...

Credit card skimming devices were found at four Trucchi's Supermarkets locations in southeastern Massachusetts this week.

Credit card skimmers are devices that steal credit (or debit) card information by reading the magnetic strips found on these cards. Some skimmers use a hidden camera to capture consumer PINs for debit ...

[anfractuosus] has been reading magnetic stripe card… optically! While hackers routinely read and write stripe cards, this is the first time we’ve reported on optically imaging and decoding ...

State Bank of India has announced that it will recall all the old magnetic stripe debit cards and the customers can’t use them for transactions beyond December 31, 2019.

By Shane O'Brien  Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas joined advocates and fellow legislators at a rally urging the ...

From this year onwards, for instance, Mastercard will not require banks to put a magnetic stripe on debit and credit cards. For ticketing, new technologies including printable barcodes and ...