These cards are a little different to the credit-card-style cards we might expect, instead they’re a narrow strip with a magnetic stripe down their centre.

A magnetic stripe card is a security device with data embedded in it that identifies the user. It enables secure access, electronic or physical.

This is a proof of concept magnetic stripe card emulator. Adron embedded a thin strip of metal into track 2 of the magnetic stripe. The ends of that strip are wrapped with thin copper wire to ...

A Ohio man pled guilty on June 30 to illegally possessing magnetic stripe credit card encoding devices. According to court ...

Eventually, one day, your fancy physical titanium Apple Card will no longer have a magnetic stripe. If you’re familiar with the headache of putting it through the wrong way the first time since ...

Smart Cards have emerged as a revolutionary advancement in the realm of payment solutions, offering a significant upgrade over traditional magnetic stripe cards. These cards are embedded with a ...

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 ...

Today, all stores in the US should accept chip-and-PIN cards. Yeah, right. Liability shift is beginning of a very protracted end for magnetic stripe cards.

A chip-and-signature card is a type of credit card that encodes its information in a magnetic stripe as well as a square microchip.

In addition to regular magnetic stripe skimmers, there are devices known as card “shimmers.” Unlike card skimmers, card shimmers work by getting in between the reader and the EMV chip of your ...

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 ...