Jan 16 2008 2:11PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Technology, Security
Overheard: Chip and pin not failsafe
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
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Criminals are able to clone magnetic strips much more easily than chips, using skimming machines that they attach to ATM machines. Skimmers use a camera to record the keypad as the pin is entered, and a card reader to record the card’s information.
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The UK payments association Apacs confirms that chip-and-pin ATMs will sometimes fall back to exclusively reading the magnetic strip traditionally used to verify a card. That is necessary to support cards used by visitors from countries like the US, where chips in cards and readers are not mandatory.




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