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In a few cases, the chip in my chip card (or maybe the chip reader) has malfunctioned. After inserting the card and failing 3 times, it said to swipe the card instead. What’s preventing me from cloning the magstripe to a card… Continue reading For chip credit cards, what’s preventing me from breaking the chip to trigger the magstripe failsafe?
I know that for credit cards with RFID there are solutions to prevent unauthorized parties from reading the data for fraudulent purposes
If I know that my card 99% of the time is only going to do payments via chip, how can… Continue reading How to protect magnetic stripe in credit cards from being read?
I have a pretty basic USB mag stripe reader. Reading a card like a VISA card my understanding is it should have a start sentinel % character. If I scan into Notepad this character doesn’t appear but I do get the B second char… Continue reading Magstripe reader start sentinal
I have a magnetic stripe card reader that support three standard encodings: ISO, AAMVA and Ca DMV.
For research purposes I’m trying to read a magnetic stripe card which doesn’t seem to be encoded whith any of those standard… Continue reading Figure out custom magstripe encoding
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?
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?
I asked a question a while back on using magnets (for example powerful Neodymium ones) to wipe a HDD, and got shown a good article proving it is not possible to wipe data.
Pretend I am about to destroy a credit/debit card. I… Continue reading Wiping magnetic stripe on card with magnet?
I was reading Breaking VISA PIN by L. Padilla. He stated that changing the PIN will change the stored data on the card. But, I tried on several cards and changing the the PIN does not affect the data stored on tracks 1 and 2…. Continue reading Why doesn’t changing the PIN affect recorded data on magnetic card?
I was reading Breaking VISA PIN by L. Padilla. He stated that changing the PIN will change the stored data on the card. But, I tried on several cards and changing the the PIN does not affect the data stored on tracks 1 and 2…. Continue reading Why doesn’t changing the PIN affect recorded data on magnetic card?
I know all systems accepting magnetic stripe cards (card readers, access systems, etc) would reject a cut one. But could and expert still get the data that was on it?
For the record, I mean “cut in half”, as often stated in … Continue reading Could data be recovered from cut magnetic stripe card?