Automated Teller Machine (ATM), also known as a cash machine, cashpoint, or "hole in the wall".
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Shimmers inside chip and pin devices
Recently shimmers made a lot of noise in the news and became popular to be installed in ATMs as they are very small.
Can they be installed inside chip and pin devices? Or where else can they be installed?
How to protect yourself from it?
UPDATE:…
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Contactless session on ATM?
I'm currently reading about an access control and saw something interesting about smartcard contact & contactless.
From what I understood from the book, smartcard contact is like an ATM Card. Then smartcard contactless is like RFID, which is used…
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Should a skimming victim automatically contact the police as well as his financial institution?
I'm concerned about the appropriateness of my response to the following incident:
My debit card was skimmed. The skimming was discovered when we saw nine debit card transactions that we hadn't completed. The card was skimmed somewhere in…
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ATM skimming and magnetic strip cloning
How does a thief know whether an ATM is EMV enabled or not?
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Anti Skimmer and Anti fraud?
Would you please tell me what is the difference between Anti-skimmer and Anti-fraud in ATMs?
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How can hackers steal from a savings account that has no client card?
Someone I know was stolen a few hundreds dollars from a savings account. Looking at the history, she saw transactions like Uber rides and video games purchases she did not do. This account is used strictly for investing and is only accessed from her…
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"1234 1234 XXXX 1234" in a statement from an ATM
I got a statement from an ATM after I withdrew money where my card number was encoded like this:
1234 1234 XXXX 1234
where 1234 -- the real digits of my card. Since there're only 4 digits hidden, how vulnerable is it?
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ATM skimming and cloning
Is it possible for a skimmer to copy the magnetic strip of a smart card (smart card contains microchip and magnetic strip) and clone the card only using the magnetic strip and use that at an ATM to withdraw money?
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How is the widespread design of ATM rooms more secure?
Widespread ATM room designs are such that the machine faces the door which is less secure as compared to a situation wherein I face the door when using the ATM.
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Why do some ATMs not require a PIN when depositing money?
Some ATMs allow depositing money on an account, without prompting for a PIN number. This is probably a convenience to users, but I believe it is also a basic breach in security.
The tradeoff between convenience and security is quite hard (e.g.…
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