Debit Machine Tampering
The recent announcement of a new debit machine fraud scheme shows that merchants need to take more physical security precautions. Store clerks were being distracted long enough for crooks to exchange the real machine with one wired to collect the card and PIN information. They come back a few days later and do the same thing to retrieve the machine.
If the store doesn’t physically secure the machine and have video surveillance, it can very easily miss this attack.
Putting on a show at the POS… It takes practice, but its worth it | Security Views on 10 Sep 2007 at 11:04 pm #
[…] In one case (HERE), thieves distracted store staff and completely replaced the POS equipment that was designed to capture numbers and PINs during purchase transactions. They then had to return and repeat the diversion to swap the machines back. You can’t do much to protect yourself from the latter example, but there are things you can do to reduce the chances that a crooked merchant-side individual can easily steal enough of your bank card data to create a successful forgery. […]