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At Black Hat: Square Reader To Credit Card Skimmer In 10 Minutes

Posted by timothy on from the practice-safe-swiping dept.

New submitter arit writes with word that three recent Boston University grads have demonstrated at Black Hat software and hardware attacks on the Square Reader used by many mobile vendors to process credit card transactions. One of the attacks converts a standard reader into an efficient credit card skimmer (conference slides) with very little effort. Always keep Scott Adams' object lesson in mind.

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  1. Card Readers are Card Skimmers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We have card readers attached to our pay-for-print release stations. Turns out if you open Notepad on the release station, the card reader instantly becomes a card skimmer, because, well, card readers read cards.