Heat from your fingers could disclose your PIN at an ATM

Thermal cameras can apparently detect heat signatures from your fingers on the keys after you have left an ATM. The degree of heat residue can also indicate in which order you touched them! This techn...

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Do you get SMS alerts for debit card transactions?

Does your bank provide SMS alerts for debit card transactions? If it does, do you use the service? According to an article in the Times of India, with effect from July 2011, the Reserve Bank of India...

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Europol busts international cross border skimming operation

Operation Night Clone is a great success for Europol - not only has a major international skimming group been taken out of play, but Europol has again shown its operational teeth as a pan-European La...

Fraud migrates away as European EMV rollout nears completion

The European ATM Security Team (EAST) has just published a chart showing the impact on ATM related skimming losses of the rollout of EMV (chip and PIN) at European ATMs. There appears to have been a g...

Is the rise of global card fraud being taken seriously?

According to the recent ACI commissioned survey as reported on this website, 81% of the 4,200 respondents, in the 14 countries surveyed, have confidence in the ability of their bank of financial inst...

The end for the magnetic stripe on payment cards?

EAST, the European ATM Security Team, has recently released European ATM crime statistics for the period January to June 2010. The figures show a 24% increase in card skimming attacks at European AT...

Now you can see why you should protect your PIN at an ATM!

I first did a blog on Do you Protect Your PIN at ATM on this site last winter. In it I stated: "The most common ways that criminals obtain a PIN at an ATM are by looking over your shoulder (defe...

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Would you use biometric technology at an ATM?

The European ATM Security Team (EAST) is asking this question in its latest on-line research poll. Well would you? Such technology, both palm vein and finger vein is relatively common in Japan and ...

EMV Smart Card security - what's the way forward?

My post on 'should we have chip only payment cards?' gave rise to some discussion and debate, and many thanks to all those concerned for their views and comments. The related website poll conducted ...

More paper Fivers in ATMs or a Polymer note instead?

How convenient for the BoE to blame the current problem with old and tired 5 pound notes on the recession, and then push for the high street banks to take action. Weren't they doing exactly the same ...

Do you protect your PIN at an ATM?

The days are drawing in (in the Northern hemisphere at least), its dark, its cold, and its busy in the lead up to Xmas and the New Year. A lot of money is taken out of ATMs this month. Its a good ti...

Should we have chip only payment cards?

Should sensitive cardholder data be held as standard in magnetic stripes on European EMV cards? The European ATM Security Team (EAST) has conducted a website poll on this topic. On currently availabl...