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The Sound of Stealing: Crooks Make ATM Skimmers Out of Old MP3 Players
Topic Started: Oct 26 2011, 05:00 PM (76 Views)
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The Sound of Stealing: Crooks Make ATM Skimmers Out of Old MP3 Players

MP3 players have revolutionized the way we listen to music, but these tiny technological marvels are also breathing new life into the dark world of ATM skimming and credit-card counterfeiting.

In forging head-on into the cybercrime underground, noted reporter Brian Krebs discovered that criminals are selling ATM skimmers that use parts from MP3 players to record audio files of the data stored on a credit card's magnetic stripe as it passes through the ATM. (The magnetic stripes are basically short lengths of audio cassette tape.)

Krebs, in his Krebs on Security blog, detailed one particular skimmer designed to fit over a Diebold Opteva 760, "one of the most common ATMs around ..........

Story - http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/mp3-parts-help-crooks-forge-fake-credit-cards-1236/
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