EMV chip cards have grown exponentially and legacy magnetic stripe cards will soon be nearly gone. Your complimentary guest ...

We’re now all used to near-limitless storage on flash and other semiconductor technologies, but there was a time when persistent storage was considerably less easy to achieve. A 1970s ...

[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 ...

If you believe you’re the victim of card present fraud, notify your card issuer immediately. It will investigate the matter and decide whether to reimburse you for the fraud or deny your claim. In any ...

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 ...