Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 10:56AM I was recently in London for a series of meetings and decided to catch a cab between appointments. Nothing unusual about that you might think and neither did I until I came to pay my fare. It was the first time I had encountered a London taxi that offered a contactless payment method...
Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 9:41AM While stumbling along yesterday, I came across this news video clip of "Electronic Pickpocketing", wherein the reports describes the potential dangers of contactless banking cards...
Card Fraud, Contacless cards, Skimming Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 8:05AM Just the other day I was reading an interesting article about how ATM skimmers are making a resurgence in Europe. The ComputerWorld article, which you can read here, talks about the latest innovations in attacks against ATM machines. The skmming devices used by the fraudsters are attached to the ATM machine in order to “skim” the card details of the ATM users...
ATM, Card Fraud, EAST, EMV, Skimmers