ATM ‘Shimmers’ Target Chip-Based Cards — Krebs on Security | #CyberSecurity #Awareness | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it

Several readers have called attention to warnings coming out of Canada about a supposedly new form of card skimming called “shimming” that targets chip-based credit and debit cards. Shimming attacks are not new (KrebsOnSecurity first wrote about them in August 2015), but they are likely to become more common as a greater number of banks in the United States shift to issuing chip-based cards. Here’s a brief primer on shimming attacks, and why they succeed.

 

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