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 ...

For decades, the magnetic stripe has been ubiquitous on everything from credit cards to tickets to ID badges. But the BBC reports — unsurprisingly — that the mag stripe’s days are numbered.

Is the dark, broad magnetic strip on the back of the credit cards that you–or your customers–swipe during purchases going the way of the eight-track tape player and dial-up modem? That ...

There are, broadly, two kinds of magnetic stripe, called HiCo and LoCo. The latter is cheaper, less durable, and more susceptible to disruption from magnets, says Lee Minter, head of global ...

BuckID has begun its initial stages of transitioning all university identification cards to include both magnetic stripes and contact chips. Joshua Bodnar, the director of BuckID, said this ...

THE CHIPS USED FOR CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS ARE MUCH MORE SECURE THAN THESE. THESE ARE THE MAGNETIC STRIPES THAT ARE ON THE BACK OF OUR CARDS, WHICH UNFORTUNATELY ARE STILL THERE. SO TO FORCE VICTIMS ...

He has a passion for analyzing economic and financial data and sharing it with others. A magnetic stripe card is a type of credit or other card that allows the user to make electronic transactions ...

RBI had earlier mandated that all cards be upgraded to chip and pin more from the magnetic stripe. RBI also mandated that all cards require OTP for transaction authentication where the card is not ...

The Sentry, an autonomous undersea vehicle, was used to map the magnetic stripes in Pito Deep, a large chasm in the Pacific Ocean that provides a cross-section of samples of lower oceanic crust.