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Gas stations will become liable for card-skimming at their pay-at-the-pump mechanisms starting in October. Continue reading Cybercriminals Fill Up on Gas Pump Transaction Scams Ahead of Oct. Deadline
The crooks don’t steal your whole card, which you’d probably notice, but just the chip from it… Continue reading Crooks are swapping out chips on payment cards, says US Secret Service
Forget about security! It turns out that the Chip-and-PIN cards are just as easy to clone as magnetic stripe cards.
It took researchers just a simple chip and pin hack to withdraw up to $50,000 in cash from an ATM in America in under 15 minutes.
We h… Continue reading This ATM Hack Allows Crooks to Steal Money From Chip-and-Pin Cards
Researchers demonstrated how they can capture both Track 2 data and bypass chip and pin protections with a Raspberry Pi and infected pin pads at Black Hat. Continue reading Researchers Bypass Chip-and-Pin Protections at Black Hat
15 countries, 105 people, a pile of duty free shops, a stack of cloned cards…and €5 million in glitzy goods 
Continue reading Big “carding gang” bust announced by Europol: 105 arrests across 15 countries
American Express has begun notifying cardholders that their data may have been compromised in a third-party breach. Continue reading American Express Notifies Cardholders of Third-Party Breach
A number of credit unions say they have experienced an unusually high level of debit card fraud from the breach at nationwide fast food chain Wendy’s, and that the losses so far eclipse those that came in the wake of huge card breaches at Target and Home Depot. Continue reading Credit Unions Feeling Pinch in Wendy’s Breach