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NY Man Gets Jail Time For $390K Card Skimming Scheme

PYMNTS

A New York man, 39-year-old Bogdan Rusu, was sentenced to 60 months in prison on charges of using credit card skimming tactics to steal $390,141 from various New Jersey banks, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) report. From there, they used the information to steal customers’ money from their accounts.

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New App Pinpoints Card Skimmers On Gas Pumps, ATMs

PYMNTS

As credit card skimmers have gotten smarter, they have also gotten easier to detect, thanks to Bluetooth broadcasting that announces the presence of enabled devices. Now there is an app that can wirelessly reveal the thievery technology, as reported on Wednesday (Aug. student Nishant Bhaskar. states, the report noted.

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Bluetooth Security Flaw Makes Data Vulnerable To Attack

PYMNTS

Bluetooth has also changed the way thieves go about card skimming, with the ability to use smaller devices and download data over SMS. Card skimmers today are largely invisible to the eye, and with wireless Bluetooth technology, it’s easier for thieves to wirelessly download stolen data.

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Deep Dive: Emerging Security Threats Facing The CU Space And How Data Analytics Can Help

PYMNTS

Advances in technology are making consumer transactions seemingly more secure, but cybercriminals are still finding sophisticated ways to beat systems and commit financial fraud. Clicking can initiate malicious attacks and spyware that can steal passwords, credit card numbers and other data from browsers.

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Pride Vendors Look To Triple Sales With mPOS

PYMNTS

In this month’s feature story, PYMNTS caught up with vendors from Boston and San Diego to explore how mPOS is becoming increasingly critical to winning business at Pride events. This is especially true in North America, where consumers are still heavily reliant on plastic cards and cash payments. In markets like the U.S.,

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The 14 Biggest Payments & Card Industry Conferences & Events in 2023

Fintech Labs Insights

These are the largest events in the financial services industry geared towards payments and card technologists, program managers, marketers, developers and C-Suite execs at both legacy financial institutions and upstart payments firms and card issuers. And prices tend to rise as the event draws closer.

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Reflections 2022: The Power of Patents and the People Behind Them

FICO

Some of the patents granted this year that are most meaningful to me include: “Visualization for Payment Card Transaction Fraud Analysis,” which relates to a computer-implemented method and system for visualizing payment card transactional fraud analysis. This technology is incorporated into FICO® Falcon® Fraud Manager.