"App Allows Inspectors to Find Gas Pump Skimmers Faster"

Fraudsters use skimmers as a physical means to perform data theft. Skimmers are small devices that can be attached to a gas pump or an ATM's card reader to harvest credit and debit card numbers as users swipe their cards. These devices use Bluetooth to transmit the stolen data. An app to detect skimmers at gas pumps, called Bluetana, has been developed by a team of computer scientists at UC San Diego and the University of Illinois with technical input from the United States Secret Service. Bluetana will not be made available to the general public as it is only intended to be used by state and federal inspectors. Through the use of Bluetana, 42 Bluetooth-based skimmers have been discovered in three U.S. states. This article continues to discuss the Bluetana app, the concept of skimmers, and the need to develop more techniques to detect such tools used by criminals. 

Science Daily reports "App Allows Inspectors to Find Gas Pump Skimmers Faster"