You want scary on a Friday evening? Check this out. Talk about the perfect
bank-account-looting tool - it captures your card info AND your PIN and texts
them to the bad guys immediately. I don't know if I could have detected this
hacked ATM. Scary! Pix were taken by Mykko Hyponnen of F-Secure:
ATM main view: http://twitpic.com/4pko1
ATM close-up of the slot: http://twitpic.com/4pkn3
ATM showing capture camera (in phone): http://twitpic.com/4pknu
ATM slot skimming device: http://twitpic.com/4pkmn
ATM closeup of phone & batts: http://twitpic.com/4pkmj
Here's another skimming device that was mounted on a Citibank ATM:
Would You Have Spotted the Fraud? - Krebs on Security
http://www.krebsonsecurity.com/2010/01/would-you-have-spotted-the-fraud/
Pictured below is what´s known as a skimmer, or a device made to be
affixed to the mouth of an ATM machine and secretly swipe credit and debit
card information when bank customers slip their cards into the machines to
pull out money. Skimmers have been around for years, of course, but
thieves are constantly improving them, and the device picture below is a
perfect example of that evolution.
This particular skimmer was found Dec. 6, 2009, attached to the front of a
Citibank ATM in Woodland Hills, Calif. Would you have been able to spot
this?
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Angus Scott-Fleming
GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
1-520-895-3270
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