But so-called magstripe hotel key cards are rare these days, increasingly superseded by contactless cards with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips inside them. As such, during his hotel ...

[anfractuosus] has been reading magnetic stripe card… optically! While hackers routinely read and write stripe cards, this is the first time we’ve reported on optically imaging and decoding ...

From December 1, motorists on the N3 Toll Route will no longer be able to use magstripe (swipe) cards for payments, marking a shift towards contact-less technology at toll plazas. This transition ...

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 ...

Magnetic stripe readers and magnetic stripe encoders are devices that read and encode magnetic stripe cards such as driver’s licenses, employee badges, and credit cards. A magnetic stripe card is ...

Chip cards are less vulnerable to skimming than magnetic stripe cards, but they aren’t completely safe. Crooks can still capture your card information from a chip card using a technique called ...

My suspicions lie with Sanral’s toll operators, who may have cloned my card behind that window “This led to an industry-level decision to align on the decommissioning of magstripe terminals and ...

Square is easy to use, and with just the free magstripe reader, you can get started accepting payments with no upfront costs. To accept Apple Pay or chip cards, you will have to fork over $69 CAD ...

As he slipped the key card into the reader on his hotel room door and tried the handle - to no avail - he realised what he ...

Instead, pay for your hardware (get your first magstripe reader for free, contactless is $69 CAD and processing fees of 2.65% per transaction for all major credit cards. Shopify is one of the ...