[anfractuosus] has been reading magnetic stripe card… optically! While hackers routinely read and write stripe cards, this is the first time we’ve reported on optically imaging and decoding ...

These cards are a little different to the credit-card-style cards we might expect, instead they’re a narrow strip with a magnetic stripe down their centre. The unusual feature can be found at ...

multiCLASS® Magnetic Stripe readers are designed for customers upgrading their current access control card system from the popular magnetic stripe ("magstripe") technology to the enhanced security of ...

“There was a queue of people with exactly the same problem as me,” he recalls. The magnetic stripe was invented by an IBM ...