How to minimize the risk of illicit credit card capturing
- August 25th, 2009
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‘Skimming’ customer credit card numbers is a growing threat
By Ellen Messmer , Network World , 08/25/2009
Miniature digital cameras have been found “hidden in false ceilings,” above PIN pads, or on store counters “in boxes to hold leaflets” and in “charity boxes next to PIN pads,” the council’s report notes. Criminals use “miniature cameras to observe and record the PIN as it is entered.”
Attackers are doing whatever takes to tamper with payment-terminal equipment to compromise it by adding skimmers, sometimes paying off employees to look the other way.
“The skimming equipment can be very sophisticated, small and difficult to identify,” the council’s report notes. “Often it is hidden within the terminal so neither the merchant nor the cardholder knows that the terminal has been compromised.” Even MP3 players and voice recorders have been used as skimming equipment
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