The PIN pad-tampering attack Michaels Stores Inc. revealed earlier this month is far more widespread than it originally believed, affecting at least 90 payment terminals in stores in 20 states, the ...

Michaels Stores Inc. claims in mid-May it was partway through the process of upgrading the payment terminals in its stores to new, tamper-resistant models when a series of fraudulent debit card ...

The U.S. Secret Service is warning financial institutions about a recent uptick in a form of ATM skimming that involves cutting cupcake-sized holes in a cash machine and then using a combination of ...

Skimming scams are everywhere, but according to Krebs on Security, there’s another component to them that’s easy to prevent—scammers recording your PIN number. “Very often the most clever component of ...

A fake pin pad used as a card-skimming device meant to steal credit card information was discovered in the self-checkout line of an Atlanta-area Kroger grocery store, police say. The fraud was ...

Cryptera, which generated revenues of $20 million to $30 million in 2013, is a major supplier of PIN pads for some of the world's top manufacturers of ATMs, gas pumps, self-service and self-checkout ...

Barnes & Noble Wednesday confirmed that point-of-sale systems in 63 of its stores had been physically hacked as part of what it described as "a sophisticated criminal effort to steal credit and debit ...

Researchers have proven it’s possible to train a special-purpose deep-learning algorithm that can guess 4-digit card PINs 41% of the time, even if the victim is covering the pad with their hands. The ...

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