ATM skimmer caught in the wild by a real security engineer

By John Biggs

Whoda thunk it? A tourist/cybersecurity expert Benjamin Tedesco was hanging out in Vienna when he walked up to an ATM. Because he trusts no one he decided to give the reader a little tug and came away with a working skimmer designed to look exactly like the card slot on the original machine. “It pays to be paranoid,” he said and he’s right. Tedesco pulled off the skimmer and… Read More

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Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets