Comment on How do I prevent hackers from stealing my debit card information?
demesisx@infosec.pub 1 year ago
A lot of other good comments here but I would also recommend not swiping your card at ANY machine. I had my debit card # lifted several times before I finally decided to only use something secure like ApplePay (at the gas pump particularly). Apple Pay changes the card number every single time it’s used. So, it can at least pinpoint the exact moment it was stolen if it somehow did give up your info. I’ve never had to worry about my card number getting stolen since I made that change.
Snowman44@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t have apple pay, but I do use Google pay whenever I can.
MeatSweat@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Google Pay will do the same thing so you should be good there. It’s called credit card tokenization.
AbstractLinguist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And it’s even better than you described. The one time token isn’t a new card number, it’s not a card number at all. It’s basically Apple saying “yep this is legit” to the other computer, and then the two banking systems do their money transfer on the back end.
Even if someone could intercept it and decrypt it, it would be completely useless because that’s just not a thing.
Pretty sure Google does basically the same thing. Never used it though.
demesisx@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Looks like Google will offer that too if you use Google Wallet on your phone.