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SkimReaper, subject of a USENIX Security paper, detects most common card skimmers.
[...] At the USENIX Security Symposium here today, University of Florida researcher Nolen Scaife presented the results of a research project he undertook with Christian Peeters and Patrick Traynor to effectively detect some types of "skimmers"—maliciously placed devices designed to surreptitiously capture the magnetic stripe data and PIN codes of debit and credit cards as they are inserted into automated teller machines and point-of-sale systems. The researchers developed SkimReaper, a device that can sense when multiple read heads are present—a telltale sign of the presence of a skimmer.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Friday August 17 2018, @03:27PM (2 children)
When the chip on my card died after a couple years I had to replace the card. Most readers I use won't accept my card if I swipe it saying "use chip instead".
The only time I can swipe is if the reader has no chip (or, in almost every case, it has a chip reader but it is disabled).
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday August 17 2018, @05:49PM (1 child)
Being told to inset a swiped chip card is standard. In my experience, if a card reader has tried and failed to read a chip, and the reader asks for the card to be swiped, it will then ignore the "this card has a chip" bit on the magstrip. So trying the faulty chip each time before swiping work.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday August 20 2018, @12:09AM
Ahh, I get it. Thanks.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh