atm
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Malware For Virtual Skimming Is Getting Scarier
In 2009, malware called “Skimer” surfaced and security firms took notice. Skimer is essentially malware that gives hackers full access to an ATM without needing to install any physical hardware, like a card skimmer. According to a new investigation by Kaspersky Lab, the malware is not only seems in use, but it’s also become more…
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Would An ATM Break Open If You Dropped It From A Crane 30 Metres In The Air?
Video: For anyone who needs money and also has access to a crane and can somehow finagle an entire ATM out of thin air, you now have your blueprint into breaking an ATM open. Those machines are tough! Breaking ATMs for cash is the stuff of movies and TV shows, but it doesn’t have to…
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Police Are Beating Card Skimmers With GPS Trackers
You might think that the best way to fight card skimmers would be hunt them down and destroy them. But police in California have been leaving the skimmers right where they are — after they have fitted GPS trackers to them, that is.
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A Simple Trick To Protect Your PIN From Thieves With Thermal Cameras
Thermal cameras were once expensive and bulky hunks of equipment that very few people could get their hands on. No longer. With FLIR’s new iPhone case thermal imaging cameras are now both affordable and incredibly discreet, which means that evil-doers can use it to see the thermal signature your fingers leave on a keypad and…