[David Cranor] has found a way to fool a magnetic stripe reader using a hand-wound electromagnet and an iPod. The data on a card is read and stored on a computer, then encoded as a WAV file using ...

[anfractuosus] has been reading magnetic stripe card… optically! While hackers routinely read and write stripe cards, this is the first time we’ve reported on optically imaging and decoding ...

As he slipped the key card into the reader on his hotel room door and tried the handle - to no avail - he realised what he ...

State Bank of India has announced that it will recall all the old magnetic stripe debit cards and the customers can’t use them for transactions beyond December 31, 2019.

The last time Zeina Elshaer, a second-year in biological engineering, swiped her BuckID card to pay was December 2024, when she was buying food at the Union Market. Soon, she might never swipe for an ...

[Newsweek] Is This the End for the Magnetic Stripe? Since the 1960s, magstripes have been used on bank cards, rail tickets, IDs and even cards containing medical information, to set up hospital ...

Chip cards are less vulnerable to skimming than magnetic stripe cards, but they aren’t completely safe. Crooks can still capture your card information from a chip card using a technique called ...

multiCLASS® Magnetic Stripe readers are designed for customers upgrading their current access control card system from the popular magnetic stripe ("magstripe") technology to the enhanced security of ...

A small length of magnetic tape adhered to credit cards, badges, permits, passes and tokens. The tape is read by magnetic stripe readers incorporated into ATMs, identification readers and payment ...