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July 10, 2014 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Application Security, Cryptography, Data Security, Information Security, Network Security, Racketeering, Physical Security, Financial Security

Via the inimitable Brian Krebs, of Krebs on Security, comes reports of insert, thin and mini card skimmers, and the perils of automated banking and commerce for consumers worldwide. The astonishing component to this litany of miscreant evil-doers is the apparent inability of hardware manufacturers' to detect, notify and terminate these devices at will [or, at the very least, reject all cards on the machine when nefarious activities are suspected].