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Lachlan Gunn

Executive Director

European Association for Secure Transactions

Member since

16 Mar 2007

Location

Perth

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The end for the magnetic stripe on payment cards?

EAST, the European ATM Security Team, has recently released European ATM crime statistics for the period January to June 2010. The figures show a 24% increase in card skimming attacks at European ATMs - 5,743 attacks were reported for the period January to June 2010, compared with 4,629 for the same period in 2009. This is the highest ever figu...

27 October 2010 /security

Now you can see why you should protect your PIN at an ATM!

I first did a blog on Do you Protect Your PIN at ATM on this site last winter. In it I stated: "The most common ways that criminals obtain a PIN at an ATM are by looking over your shoulder (defeated by covering your PIN), by using spy or micro cameras (also defeated by covering your PIN) and by using a false overlay over the PIN pad. It shoul...

23 September 2010 /security Information Security

Would you use biometric technology at an ATM?

The European ATM Security Team (EAST) is asking this question in its latest on-line research poll. Well would you? Such technology, both palm vein and finger vein is relatively common in Japan and also in use in Brazil. Other countries such as India are apparently looking to roll it out. Hmm. To date only 24% of the respondents would be happ...

01 September 2010 /security /regulation

EMV Smart Card security - what's the way forward?

My post on 'should we have chip only payment cards?' gave rise to some discussion and debate, and many thanks to all those concerned for their views and comments. The related website poll conducted by the European ATM Security Team (EAST) indicated that 60% of respondents felt that European EMV cards should not hold sensitive cardholder data as ...

19 January 2010 /security