万花筒 2011-02-03&02-05 可怕的信用卡复制器

 Watch a man sit down next to a woman and without touching¹ her; successfully steal her key information from her credit card. 

 

-Here’s your visa number.

 

-How did you do that?

 

He works for IDENTITY STRONCHOLD, a company specializing in electronic fraud protection. Look for this symbol on your credit card. If you have it, your card is sending out a radio frequency identification signal. It’s design you can simply bring your card close to an object and purchase without swiping the card. But thieves have figured out how to exploit that, here again, a pass glance, and he’s got the info.

 

-It’s simply as this chip right here that’s been added to a once functioning pin pad. 

 

Police are seeing a whole new level of cyber crime when the merchants are not looking thieves swap² a normal pin pad with an identical looking one, but one that’s been customized. And inside you find one extra small computer chip that takes all that key information and via bluetooth broadcasts it to a distance of up to 30 feet, increasing thieves are going wireless³. 

 

-There is a rogue⁴ fraudster in a parking lot that monitoring on a laptop live what activity is going on, this pin pad, including your pin number and all of your account information. 

 

-And not only there are monitoring it they can actually start the cards, printing the cards right away.

 

-Absolutely. And all that date that comes from this piece of equipment here is quickly captured on to some magnetic strip like this; you simply write what the pin number is on the card. And you also have the new bank card.

 

Police are being proactive, warning merchants of how fast crime tactics are evolving. 

 

-Just to provide you with some information on preventing yourself, your business, ah, being a target.

 

-We’ve got a S. crystallized debit⁵ machine, so it’s interesting because you know a lot of people say if they put a little sticker on it and stuff, it’s easy to replicate⁶ and you can go out and buy a sticker and stick it on, you never know the difference. This is pretty hard to replicate.

 

There are self-powered card skimmers that thieves place over top of the bank’s card slot, your card is taken into the machine. You still do your transactions so everything looks normal. 

 

-But as the card slips back through after the transaction is meet, all that data that is captured on this little device right here including your pin number. 

 

You can get led-line sleeves and wallets to block consumers from picking up your new RFID enabled credit cards but ultimately consumers just have to stay on top of what’s going on and protect sensitive financial information like never before.

1 touching   

adj.动人的，使人感伤的

参考例句：

• It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
• His letter was touching.他的信很感人。

2 swap   

n.交换；vt.交换，用...作交易

参考例句：

• I will swap you my bicycle for your radio.我想拿我的自行车换你的收音机。
• This comic was a swap that I got from Nick.这本漫画书是我从尼克那里换来的。

3 wireless   

adj.无线的；n.无线电

参考例句：

• There are a lot of wireless links in a radio.收音机里有许多无线电线路。
• Wireless messages tell us that the ship was sinking.无线电报告知我们那艘船正在下沉。

4 rogue   

n.流氓；v.游手好闲

参考例句：

• The little rogue had his grandpa's glasses on.这淘气鬼带上了他祖父的眼镜。
• They defined him as a rogue.他们确定他为骗子。

5 debit   

n.借方，借项，记人借方的款项

参考例句：

• To whom shall I debit this sum?此款应记入谁的账户的借方？
• We undercharge Mr.Smith and have to send him a debit note for the extra amount.我们少收了史密斯先生的钱，只得给他寄去一张借条所要欠款。

6 replicate   

v.折叠，复制，模写；n.同样的样品；adj.转折的

参考例句：

• The DNA of chromatin must replicate before cell division.染色质DNA在细胞分裂之前必须复制。
• It is also easy to replicate,as the next subsection explains.就像下一个小节详细说明的那样，它还可以被轻易的复制。