6 Easy Ways to Protect Your Debit Card From Skimmers. You’ve no doubt heard news reports about debit card skimmers being found at certain retail or banking establishments. Card skimmers can be installed at ATMs, restaurants, gas payment terminals, and even store check-out lines. The phony equipment is small and can be hard to spot. Some…
Card shimming is the new way to prey on your identity. Card skimming involves a device that is attached to the outside of the card reader that reads the magnetic stripe on credit cards. Card skimmers are bulky and easy to spot. Card shimming, on the other hand, is not. Card shimming involves a paper-thin, card-sized…
5 tips and a new device to keep your credit card safe. Researchers have teamed up with the New York City Police Department’s Financial Crimes Task Force to deploy the “Skim Reaper,” a device that instantly detects the presence of a credit card skimmer, allowing law enforcement and merchants to take action before the theft…
NYPD tests new tool that detects credit card skimmers. Patrick Traynor, a cybersecurity expert, was in New York in February working with police to help identify a way to detect credit card skimmers on ATMs when he got a financial fraud alert: his own information had been stolen while he was in town. It wasn’t the…