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Smile! You’re a deepfake

April 4, 2024 Comments are Disabled

Digital payment technology has made it faster, cheaper and easier to move money. But it’s also proved a goldmine for scammers. In this article we review three recent digital payment […]

Keep your phone, ID and payment card separate!

February 19, 2024 Comments are Disabled

A recent payment fraud started from a gym theft. The story contains valuable lessons about mobile security. In an article I wrote for New Money Review last year, I uncovered […]

Hacking into payment systems

July 3, 2023 Comments are Disabled

Tim Yunusov is a computer scientist and security researcher with a special interest in banking and payment systems. He’s also written a series of articles on hacking for New Money […]

Adding crypto to payment cards is playing with fire

January 9, 2023 Comments are Disabled

Payment cards linked to cryptocurrencies are booming. But adding a volatile, fraud-ridden new technology (crypto) to a rickety old one (card payment networks) risks all kinds of new problems. By […]

No Photoshop required

August 15, 2022 Comments are Disabled

How to create a debit card using stolen ID details Tim Yunusov, our intrepid hacking correspondent, shows how easy it is to circumvent technology firms’ ID checks–and to spend money […]

Crypto payment cards may be unsafe—but not in the way you think

August 9, 2021 Comments are Disabled

Payment cards linked to cryptocurrencies are booming. But they combine a new technology (crypto) and an old one (card payment networks). In this guest post, payments security researcher Timur Yunusov […]