{"id":18136,"date":"2016-08-03T18:25:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T23:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=18136"},"modified":"2016-08-03T18:25:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T23:25:30","slug":"real-world-threats-credit-card-machine-and-atm-skimmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/03\/real-world-threats-credit-card-machine-and-atm-skimmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Real World Threats: Credit Card Machine and ATM &#8220;Skimmers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watch Credit Card Suspects Put Skimmer on ATM Machine in Three Seconds\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5b1axnNK-wI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The next time you get ready to pay with a credit card at a gas pump, convenience store or use an ATM, take a careful look at the machine before you use it. It could have an illegal &#8220;Skimmer&#8221; Attached to it. A Skimmer is basically a device which compromises the machines card reader and allows your credit card information to be stolen. In the above video, watch how fast this crook attaches the &#8220;Skimmer&#8221; device to the Credit Card machine without anyone being the wiser.<\/p>\n<p>There is a multitude of good articles online to get you up to speed on this new form of credit card theft but here is one from a site I visit regularly for cyber-security updates; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2016\/05\/skimmers-found-at-walmart-a-closer-look\/\">Krebs on Security<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stay Alert, Look Before You Swipe and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you get ready to pay with a credit card at a gas pump, convenience store or use an ATM, take a careful look at the machine before you use it. It could have an illegal &#8220;Skimmer&#8221; Attached to it. A Skimmer is basically a device which compromises the machines card reader and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3929,483,1189,5570,5543],"tags":[4180,13192,13193,1135],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}