Thanks again for your never ending effort to make the general public more attuned to the pitfalls facing all of us.Īlthough this might look small and scary, the reality is that it’s pretty sloppy and most anyone that has read one of your articles would notice this in the wild fairly easily. Recently, I had a chance to chat via instant message with a hacker in Eastern Europe who sells both audio-based ATM skimmers and the technology needed to decode audio skims or “dumps.” Below are some of the pictures of his wares that he sent me: Since then, other electronics enthusiasts have blogged about their experiments with sound skimmers for example, this guy discusses how he made a card reader device out of an old cassette recorder.

The basic method for conducting these attacks was mentioned in a 1992 edition of the hacker e-zine Phrack (the edition that explains audio-based skimmers is Phrack 37). The use of audio technology to record data stored on the magnetic stripe on the backs of all credit and debit cards has been well understood for many years. A separate micro camera embedded in the plastic steals the victim’s PIN. In the somewhat low-res pictures supplied by EAST here, the audio skimming device is mounted on a piece of plastic that fits over the ATM’s card reader throat. EAST noted that in at least one country, anti-skimming devices have been stolen and converted into skimmers, complete with micro cameras used to steal PINs.ĮAST said it also discovered that a new type of analog skimming device - using audio technology - has been reported by five countries, two of them “major ATM deployers” (defined as having more than 40,000 ATMs). The European ATM Security Team (EAST) found that 11 of the 16 European nations covered in the report experienced increases in skimming attacks last year. I mean $3 should get me what, 10Mhz I’m not complaining.Criminals increasingly are cannibalizing parts from handheld audio players and cheap spy cams to make extremely stealthy and effective ATM skimmers, devices designed to be attached to cash machines and siphon card + PIN data, a new report warns. So, test drive the bigger plans and see if everything feels snappy and fast. I presume it is when other customers with more Mhz are using resources. I have the Baby VE plan ($3 per month for 5GB and 100MB, yes $3 if you pre pay, see what you get for $10!) and it can run a little slow because it isn’t allocated many Mhz. I should point out that the system has great bandwidth and fast storage, but there is a concept of processor units. And they a *SUPER* competitive on GB, HD and price! Within minutes you can telnet or ftp in and start testing you virutal server. You get Linux with root access and you can run whatever daemons you like.Īccount setup is so fast that you can test drive a service plan for 6 hours. It acts just like collocation but at shared hosting prices. This takes a cluster of x86 machines and partitions the memory and storage into virtual Linux machines. They use a Virtual Private Server product called HSP Complete.

On other news, OSNews has been added to NewsInterceptor, while we still support KlipFolio. The main osnews site only hosts the php files and the database, no images. The way we do it now is share the bandwidth absorbed by our images between multiple mirrors. I estimate that we need between 50 and 100 GB of bandwidth monthly on OSNews (actual figure depends on the kind of articles we run each month). mysql, php), just LOTS of bandwith for cheap! OSNews does great expanding itself (we finished September with more than 71,000 daily average impressions), but of course, this requires more bandwidth, so we migh be forced to not include screenshots or other images for our future articles.

If you are a hosting provider and you would like to sponsor us for an exchange of a linked logo/button on our site, we are open for discussing the possiblity. Because of the way our mirroring system works, the server should support direct linking to files (not to require to load images together with ads or via web page instead of direct linking), while SSH support is surely preferrable but not required. Anyone knows of really cheap but good (=stable) server hosting with about 100 MB of web space and at least 25 GB of bandwidth allowance per month? Please let us know, as we are completely out of bandwidth for the month (this is why screenshots for older articles do not work anymore, our mirrors for images are disabled).

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