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Lachlan Gunn

Lachlan Gunn Executive Director at European Association for Secure Transactions

Do you protect your PIN at an ATM?

The days are drawing in (in the Northern hemisphere at least), its dark, its cold, and its busy in the lead up to Xmas and the New Year. A lot of money is taken out of ATMs this month. Its a good time for fraudsters! The easiest way to significantly reduce risk to your card when using an ATM (or any other terminal) is by covering one hand with th...

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Lachlan Gunn

Lachlan Gunn Executive Director at European Association for Secure Transactions

Should we have chip only payment cards?

Should sensitive cardholder data be held as standard in magnetic stripes on European EMV cards? The European ATM Security Team (EAST) has conducted a website poll on this topic. On currently available plans, by the end of 2010 all ATMs within Europe are expected to be EMV (Chip and PIN) compliant. The data on the magnetic stripe is no longer requi...

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