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5 tips and a new device to keep your credit card safe

Chip Credit Cards, General BusinessBy superadmin May 17, 2018

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

Chip Credit Cards, General BusinessBy superadmin May 10, 2018

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…