“The time to sweep a store went from one to two hours physically examining each of the 20-30 payment terminals per store down to a mere 15 minutes.”
Skimmers found in the US jumped 368% from 2021 to 2022. Target’s countermeasure is a piece of injection-molded plastic that costs under a dollar. Push it into the chip slot, and if it goes all the way in, there’s no skimmer. Over 60,000 are in stores, and nobody needed Bluetooth scanning or a data pipeline. The best security tool in the building is a ruler.