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Saturday, January 21, 2012

All ATM cards to have secure smart chips by 2014

The new safeguard protects a customer's account details far more robustly than the current magnetic stripes, and so should make 'skimming' far harder.

Secure chips are part of a range of additional security steps announced this week by the banking industry, in the wake of the huge ATM fraud that hit DBS Bank and POSB customers two weeks ago.

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