Questions tagged [magnetic-stripe-card]
The magnetic-stripe-card tag has no usage guidance.
28
questions
0
votes
1
answer
60
views
Is there a specific term for when an employee steals your card info when you make a payment?
There seems to be a term for nearly every specific type of hack or theft. Someone brought up the situation of an employee at a drive-thru window stealing credit card info when you make a payment and I ...
- 143
0
votes
2
answers
94
views
Shred, cut, melt, smash, grind, then flush, is it secure disposal of a security access id card?
I had a card like a credit card that I used to use for work. It was an ID card, and it had an access code, a swiper, a barcode, my picture, my name, my rank, my license, the name of the company, and ...
0
votes
0
answers
816
views
Writing credit card information to a new card [duplicate]
I'm learning about how credit cards work, and I want to clone my credit card's magnetic stripe to a new regular card (not a credit card, but for example a "club card")
I know that magnetic ...
- 121
0
votes
2
answers
460
views
Is credit card cloning possible BEFORE activation?
I recently acquired this novel credit card which brags about being super secure for not having printed the security numbers on the physical card.
Then, when my physical card package arrive I notice it ...
- 101
0
votes
0
answers
363
views
Detect card type (RFID, NFC, Magnetic, ...) [duplicate]
I would like to know how the communication between my gym card and the checking point works.
I bought an ACR122U reader, but it seems that I can't read my card with it, the card is not recognized as ...
- 103
0
votes
1
answer
5k
views
ATM CVV1 + Service Code, POS Security Flaw?
I'm new to this topic and I found it very interesting how all the payment system is currently working. To be honest it look like they are not doing enough to stop fraudulent activity with Credit Cards....
- 11
0
votes
2
answers
286
views
Is it possible a scammer stole my credit card details and made a new card from it?
So I'm abroad at the moment, yet I've just had a cash withdrawal made on my credit card from my country of origin, even though I'm not there and the card IS with me abroad.
I called the card issuer ...
- 103
0
votes
1
answer
180
views
How can other information be added to my credit card?
I have had cards skimmed and then used: my credit card was being declined every time I used the magnetic strip, but it worked fine when I used the chip, so I assumed that the strip had been ...
- 1
-3
votes
1
answer
508
views
Clone debit card [duplicate]
Would you be able to clone someone debit card if you only have the picture of the card with the security code and the PIN?
- 1
1
vote
1
answer
3k
views
Can a magnetic credit card writer encode a blank card based off just a credit card number?
I was wondering what info is stored in the CC mag strip. For example: if someone got a hold of by CC number, just the numbers-no CCV, no exp date, etc... it is pretty hard to use my credit card for ...
- 21
4
votes
2
answers
6k
views
RFID-Safe Wallet destroys mag stripe?
I'm getting a hang of paying with credit cards, and contactless payment especially, lately (which was quite uncommon where I live until like a few months ago). I'm now looking to buy one of these ...
- 385
3
votes
1
answer
7k
views
Can someone clone emv chip card by knowing the magnetic stripe info? [duplicate]
Lets consider that someone skimmed the magnetic stripe of a credit/debit card which also has an emv chip.
Can this info be translated and stored into an emv chip?
And if this is possible, it is ...
1
vote
2
answers
710
views
For chip credit cards, what's preventing me from breaking the chip to trigger the magstripe failsafe?
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 ...
- 261
4
votes
1
answer
2k
views
How to protect magnetic stripe in credit cards from being read?
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 ...
- 143
1
vote
1
answer
279
views
ATM skimming and magnetic strip cloning
How does a thief know whether an ATM is EMV enabled or not?
- 11
0
votes
2
answers
1k
views
ATM skimming and cloning
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 ...
- 11
4
votes
2
answers
7k
views
Wiping magnetic stripe on card with magnet?
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 ...
- 1,272
20
votes
6
answers
11k
views
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 ...
- 319
9
votes
1
answer
68k
views
Clone debit or credit card
I would like to make some workshop about Debit or Credit card fraud (Skimming). So I need as much as possible information about it.
Is it possible to clone debit or credit card with MagStripe reader ...
- 265
11
votes
2
answers
2k
views
Could data be recovered from cut magnetic stripe 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 ...
- 221
1
vote
2
answers
420
views
Comprimising or affecting card readers, billing systems, or POS terminals using a malicious card
Our company got a new card printer for employee IDs. It was a bit expensive and we had to undergo a background as it allowed us to print both mag strips and EMV chips. I don't understand enough about ...
- 3,362
0
votes
1
answer
115
views
How can a customer authenticate EPOS device and make sure it's not fake?
In the scenario where customers use magnetic stripe payment cards and are paying via EPOS, a merchant can put a fake EPOS on the table that looks identical to real ones, the customer uses his card on ...
- 3,387
-1
votes
1
answer
300
views
Magnetic stripe credit card [duplicate]
Do ATM in London accept magnetic stripe? If yes can a thief still duplicate a credit card and use it in an ATM which accepts magnetic stripes?
- 1
7
votes
4
answers
3k
views
Reading magnetic stripe on a credit/debit card with an EMV chip
Is there any way of knowing is a credit/debit card has an EMV Chip, by reading the magnetic stripe. This way I could deny the payment via magnetic stripe and ask to the customer to insert the card via ...
- 73
2
votes
2
answers
786
views
Would chip-and-PIN have prevented the Target breach?
Would chip-and-PIN have prevented the Target breach?
As we all know, Target was breached and the hackers stole lots of credit card numbers. Target is now advocating for chip-and-PIN, as a way to ...
- 99.4k
3
votes
1
answer
985
views
How easy is it to make a malicious bank/identity card?
I recently got a magnetic card reader that plugs into my computer because I was bored. I decided to scan my ID and bank card through it and I was surprised to see my ID number/bank card number show up ...
- 133
11
votes
4
answers
27k
views
Why does my debit card have a stripe AND a chip?
Recently I received a new debit card which has both a magnetic stripe and a chip (as did my previous card).
I know the magnetic stripe can be easily copied whereas the chip system hasn't been ...
- 213
3
votes
1
answer
864
views
Improving magnetic stripe card security with a "magnetic noise" hash?
I was reading the wiki on magnetic stripe cards when I stumbled across this sentence: "Magnetic stripe cloning can be detected by the implementation of magnetic card reader heads and firmware that can ...
- 1,744