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Gadgets

Jerk Thieves Show Off And Try To Sell Illegal Card Skimmer

7:45AM Dan Nosowitz | A video has been posted to YouTube by a group called “DarkForum” in which plans for a card skimmer are demonstrated and a contact email for sales of said illegal device is listed. Screw these guys. More »
Gadgets

London’s Cockney Slang ATMs Belong In A Guy Richie Film

7:20AM Sean Fallon | Over the next few months, a select group of East London ATMs will prompt customers with utter disregard for the King’s English. Instead, the machines will use a nearly indecipherable, rhyming cockney slang dialect. More »
Random Stuff

ATM Card Skimmers Go Low-Tech, Start Using Pythons

11:40AM Rosa Golijan | I used to worry about card skimmers in ATMs, but now I have a new nightmare: pythons. Six-and-a-half foot pythons like this one which was lurking in an ATM in Nis, Serbia More »
Gadgets

Warning: Not All ATMs At DefCon Are What They Appear To Be

3:20AM Mark Wilson | The infamous DefCon hackers convention is going on in Las Vegas right now. And, just a word of advice. If you’re going to visit, grab your cash before entering the conference. More »
Cameras

Man Threatened, Arrested For Taking Picture Of Open ATM In Public

3:40AM Sean Fallon | Despite the fact that this photo was snapped in broad daylight in a busy Seattle REI store, Shane Becker was threatened by fake cops and arrested by real ones.
Press

Presenting the Latest in ATM Scam Gear: The SMS-Sending Card Skimmer

11:30PM John Mahoney | NYC is full of ATMs. It’s one of the great things about living in this city–you’re never more than a block or two away from cash. But a large, large percentage of NYC’s ATMs are cut-rate bodega models that look like your card could catch something nasty from them once dipped. Helping spread the nasty is this, the newest development in ATM skimmers, with SMS capability. So now, if he’s got $US8,500 to drop on the top of the line scam gear, the asshole who just jacked your card number and PIN doesn’t even have to come back to the scene of the crime to retrieve it. More »