Tag: ATM

In an effort to find a convenient and profitable way to recycle discarded electronics, ecoATM has raised more than $14 million to place eCycling kiosks in stores across the U.S. Each kiosk pays people who recycle their e-waste by giving them either cash or coupons from the store where the machine is located. All you have to do is drop off that old BlackBerry, iPod or other device at the kiosk. The ...

ATM skimmers are a growing problem, thanks to the ease and low cost of producing the card readers. Brian Krebs writes that the European ATM Security Team has found crooks using audio technology to read the magnetic strips on cards, almost as if they were audio cassettes. A software package is then used to convert the audio data into usable ATM card numbers. (PINs are harvested via a separate ...

The smarter breed of ATM crooks (i.e., not the type that try to cart off an entire machine with a backhoe) favor tools like card skimmers and pinhole cameras. Authorities in the U.K. recently seized the contents of one such camera, and it reveals a rather simple way to thwart these hackers: hide your hands. In order to work, skimmers require customer carelessness, and the crooks hope that you ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. This week saw ...

The greasier among you take heed: your touchscreen cell phone may be vulnerable to smudge hacking. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania (.PDF) have found that, with a camera and some basic photo processing, they can map taps and swipes on a cell phone's screen, thanks to the thin layer of oil left behind when you hold the device to your face. With just a little increase in contrast and ...

The ubiquitous ATM has quickly become a favorite, and often easy, target for hackers looking to make a quick buck. At the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas, security researcher Barnaby Jack recently demonstrated a pair of hacks that allowed him to force an ATM to literally spit cash at him like he'd hit the jackpot on a slot machine. In the demonstration, Jack attacked ATMs from Triton and Tranax, ...

Users of an ATM outside a cigarette shop in Beijing were surprised to find that, shortly after dipping their bank cards into the kiosk, their accounts were emptied out. The ATM wasn't hacked, but rather completely fake. The full-sized device bore all the familiar trappings of an ATM, such as credit card logos and a cash slot, and was set up in an otherwise empty glass room in the corner of the ...

We all take it for granted now, but there once was a time, not too long ago, when withdrawing cash from your bank account meant waiting in lengthy lines at your local bank. Everything radically changed, of course, with the birth of the ATM. On Saturday, John Shepherd-Barron, the man widely acknowledged as responsible for creating the cash dispenser, passed away in Scotland at the age of 84. ...

Share How's this for a reality show pitch? Take a bunch of Senators, representatives and Supreme Court justices, put them in a swanky, upscale apartment for six months -- and surround them with high-tech gadgets as their only means of survival. Want to order a pizza, Senator Byrd? You'll have to whip out your iPhone. In need of some new reading material, Justice Scalia? There's this thing called ...

Rather than swipe a plastic card, some bank customers in Poland only need their fingertips to withdraw money. According to Popular Science, the BPS SA bank in Warsaw, Poland recently became the first in Europe to install a biometric ATM. Thanks to Hitachi's "Finger Vein" technology, customers simply place their index finger on a scanner that reads their vein pattern and then identifies exactly ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. We just found the perfect accessory for your next Trekkie cosplay party: the Star Trek: The Next Generation PADD replica. And priced at a song compared to the read ...

The Square hype started back in December when Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced a new mobile payment system. It lets any business plug a small box into a mobile device's headphone jack for fast, easy swiping and payment. Receipts, signatures and accounts are all handled and stored electronically. Square is finally going live today for businesses and customers who use iPhones, iPads or the ...

Is a reformed con artist really a reformed con artist if he cons another criminal into a federal sting operation? That's the question Thor Alexander Morris must be asking himself after ending up on the wrong side of an undercover FBI investigation. The 19-year-old grocery store worker from North Carolina recently made the mistake of teaming up with a con artist from Houston to pull off a major ATM ...

Robbing a bank may no longer be the cinematic feat it once was, but as one North Carolina banker has proven, it can now be way more insidious. 37-year-old Rodney Reed Caverly, from Charlotte, has been charged with one count of computer fraud after allegedly installing malware on several Bank of America ATMs over a seven-month period ending in October 2009. As Wired reports, the former Bank of ...

Share Degenerate crooks can make a dubious, yet highly profitable, living through the use of ATM card skimmers. Officials routinely dismantle thievery operations that generate millions of dollars in plunder. According to the Smoking Gun, New York authorities recently arrested several suspects in relation to such a skimmer ring, and -- under federal questioning -- one man pulled a boneheaded and ...