11:12 How to steal data from an ATM | |
| One of a February afternoon, the ATM user glorious glorious American Bank of America in California found a strange silvery device of Plexiglas, fastened to a slot card acceptance. The device resembled a special cover against theft of cards. However, our hero kept his head and turned to the bank, which was discovered another device: a camera that runs on batteries and includes a sensor motion. This camera was hidden in a special box and attached to the corner ATM in a place where you can conveniently monitor the introduced PIN. In total, cash began to look like this: As it turned out, the camera receives an image of the attacker that you enter the PIN-code bound to a time when this happened: At the same time, a skimmer mounted on top of the original slots for the introduction of cards, reads the data and also tied them at the time. The data can be stored on a card that the attacker eventually quietly picks up, and passed through a simple WiFi or GPRS. Map, incidentally, can be stored in the camera. By the way, described the camera is called Camball-2, is worth about $ 200 in the U.S. and can operate in this mode 48 hours. According to the representatives of the bank, such a scheme - one of the most popular schemes of stealing credit card data from ATMs. Typically, these devices are installed on the night before the weekend on which banks are closed and the inflow to the ATM is particularly high. Here are the tips offered to protect you from possible theft. 1. Always cover your hand terminal when entering the PIN, even if next to you no one is. 2. If the slot entry card into the ATM has some sort of suspicious device - better to use another ATM. 3. If you suspect a compromise of your credit card - immediately to the bank with the writing of statements, etc. In the case of the stolen funds using an ATM burglary or a variety of additional devices (as in this article), all expenses must compensate the bank itself. Well, anyway - in the U.S.:) UPD: Since the accused, that is all too easy, add a little more complicated version:) This camera mounted in the mirror. usually at some ATMs hang a mirror so you can make sure no one behind him is not spying your PIN: Only here at the bottom of the mirror is made by attaching a hole where the camera: Most skimmers put on the door into a small foyer where there is an ATM. Well that did not go to those who fell, but only the card holders, and only this bank. These skimmers can also be sneak reader: options are really a lot - there's imagination is working well who do not. | |
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