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Secure Revolving Systems
This is the latest anti-skimming tech out there. It basically rotates the card as it's being inserted, preventing the skimmers from locking on the magnetic data strip. It's just been recently invented by a card skimmer in prison. It was announced here.
Regardless, as Rook mentioned earlier, security is relative. Software can still ...
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The best you can really do is use ATMs you know or ATMs that have good physical security if one you know isn't available. (go to an ATM inside a bank). Even then, I always spot check the machine for any signs of tampering.
A simple trick that can work well is to make sure the keypad isn't compromised (by looking and pulling on it) and then if it appears ...
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The newest skimmers cannot be seen. These skimmers wafer thin and insert into the card reader:
To make matters worse the modification can be purely software. ATMs can be hacked, their software can be modified to log the mag strips and pins of every user.
This is a purely loosing battle and you take a chance every time you use an atm. Security is ...
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From an end user perspective, i usually give the reader and surrounding plates a good whack with my fist and i try and peel back any of the faceplates with my keys or a knife. The fact of the matter is, the best quality skimmers aren't detectable. POS machines can be hacked which results in an almost undetectable scenario. Your best bet, if you want to avoid ...
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Security isn't about making something impossible to break. It is about a cost/benefit balance between usability and protection. It is practically impossible for any system to be 100% secure, however it is possible to make the effort required to break a system exceed the potential value of compromising the system.
Additionally, protective measures may ...
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In a (too simplified) nutshell, you have to balance the cost of loss and/or theft of information, with the cost to (try to) prevent them.
The book Practical Unix & Internet Security (3rd ed.) has a good (and very general, for every systems) introductory chapter talking about the security -vs- cost approach, and is a very interresting read.
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Nothing is ever really secure.
That's true as long as people are still people. If you ask any developer about their programming project they can probably give you two-to-three hypothetical scenarios where someone could exploit their code (and how). In every development project there are always high-level decisions to be made, many in regard to the level of ...
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