dave@horsfall.org
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 08:01:54 +1100
The "Krebs on Security" blog (KrebsOnSecurity.com) has a running series on
ATM skimmers, and some of them are quite dastardly (the skimmers I mean, not
the series). Well, I saw a suspicious device on an ATM that I was about to
use; it was a box just above the card slot, clearly labeled "scanner", and
what looked like a window under it.
It turned out to be a sensor for the smart-card chip (common in the world outside of the USA); I didn't try it, but all the same:
If it's sniffing my card, how do I know it's legitimate, and:
What better way to train the sheeple to get accustomed to funny
attachments on ATMs?