These cards are a little different to the credit-card-style cards we might expect, instead they’re a narrow strip with a magnetic stripe down their centre. The unusual feature can be found at ...

This hodge-podge of components is capable of spoofing the magnetic stripe on a credit card. [Sk3tch] built an electromagnet using a ferrous metal shim wrapped in enameled magnet wire. While he ...

Shimming allows criminals to create fake credit cards with your card information. Now that we’ve adopted chip cards in the ...

A small length of magnetic tape adhered to credit cards, badges ... the digital recording on the stripe is in a very low-density format and often duplicated several times in case part of the ...