Friday 29 August 2014

How to protect your PIN from the thermal cameras

You can protect your PIN from a new enemy is in the hands of crooks? The technology is evolving and with it and the methods used for each kind of theft. Let's talk about thermal cameras used to be expensive and bulky. So very few people were able to get their hands on. In the new part of the iPhone FLIR, your device turns into a thermal imaging camera. The device is very affordable and incredibly discreet. Somewhere it all begins here ... 

How to protect your PINFor this reason it has been in use since many course of several criminals are aiming to steal credit card PIN. 

The former engineer of NASA JPL Mark Rober with a video explains very simply, how can one criminal to steal your PIN you from the heat leave your fingers on the keys, a machine. 

Since I now know the trick of fraudsters is very easy to protect yourself, simply by touching more keys than you use to register your PIN. Alternatively, when you are done typing, you can put your whole palm on the keyboard in order to warm up all the buttons. You can also type using a pen or any other object that will not transfer heat. 

The good news is that they usually do not have to worry about the keyboards that are made ​​of metal. The metal keyboards reflect heat like a mirror. 

Attention So now you know, and of course there is no excuse.

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