A variant of a skimming device called a “shimmer,” which steals EMV chip card data, has been found on an ATM in Mexico, raising security questions as the United States converts to the EMV standard.

A British security researcher has proven this week that it is still possible in 2020 to create older-generation magnetic stripe (magstripe) cards using details found on modern chip-and-PIN (EMV) and ...

Sequels are never as good as the original. For the second time in ten years I am drawn to yet another media frenzy concerning the apparent premature death of EMV. Really? The story surrounds a ...

Credit- and debit-card skimmers are a perennial modern-day security problem. Thieves secretly attach them to ATMs, gas pumps, cash registers and other places people swipe their credit and debit cards.

The late Barnaby Jack showed us in 2010 how cyberattacks could persuade ATMs to part with their cash, in what he called "jackpotting" attacks. Years later, hackers and their well-organized teams of ...