Tag: ATM SKIMMERS

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 ...

South African crooks have recently focused their attention on Absa Bank, one of the African nation's largest financial institutions, by bombing several of the company's ATMs during the last year. In the Western Cape region, a popular tourist destination, authorities also claim to have identified approximately 40 data-stealing card-skimmers at various ATMs. To protect its machines -- and inflict ...