30Dec
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Local foam are on a hunt for an ATM skimmer
BY COLIN RIGLEY
In a hop clearly nude from John Connor’s ATM hacking stage from a film Terminator 2, a suspected ATM skimmer was prisoner on video after a unsuccessful ploy to supply a money appurtenance in Los Osos.
According to a San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department, a male tampered with a Bank of America involuntary teller appurtenance located on Los Osos Valley Road in a early morning of Dec. 22. The think reportedly attempted to insert a “skimmer” to a ATM’s label reader. Skimmers take financial information from people who use a machine—if a inclination duty properly.
ON CAMERA Recognize this guy? If so, call Sheriff’s Deputy Dave Menghrajani during 528-6083 or content SLOTIPS, and your message, to CRIMES (274637).PHOTO COURTESY OF SLO COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT
Article source: http://www.newtimesslo.com/news/7126/local-fuzz-are-on-the-hunt-for-an-atm-skimmer/
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16Dec
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PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now offers a mobile app that uses “augmented reality” to assistance business locate branches and programmed teller machines.
Augmented-reality programs pull graphics and content on tip of an picture prisoner from a device’s camera. In a box of PNC’s app, it draws a compass and plcae markers on tip of a user’s vicinity as prisoner in genuine time by a smartphone’s camera. Looking during a screen, users would be means to tell that of a buildings they are station in front of has a PNC ATM inside.
The app is now accessible for Apple Inc.’s iPhone and will be done accessible early subsequent year for phones using Google Inc.’s Android handling system, PNC pronounced in a press recover Thursday.
For users that wish a reduction adorned ATM-finding experience, a app, called PNC Finder, also shows bend and ATM locations on a customary map.
Article source: http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/176_242/pnc-augmented-reality-atm-branch-iphone-android-app-1044893-1.html
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05Dec
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EVERETT — Police here have arrested a male suspected of hidden $185,000 in ATM skimming operations in 3 states. The latest box concerned hidden bank label information from some-more than 70 people in south Everett.
Everett military are operative on a box alongside a U.S. Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force and Chase Bank investigators, Sgt. Robert Goetz said.
Police trust a man, 26, of Redmond, trustworthy a skimming device to an programmed teller appurtenance during a Silver Lake bend of Chase Bank along 19th Avenue SE. The device prisoner comment numbers and other information off of bank cards people used during a ATM.
The male was arrested Sunday night, when he reportedly came to a bank to collect a skimming device, Goetz said.
Investigators trust a male has skimmed some-more than 900 bank cards altogether.
The male had been underneath notice for some time, Goetz said. Chase Bank officials were means to close down
Article source: http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20111115/NEWS01/711159832
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