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Credit Card
The ISO/IEC 7810 standard is an international standard that defines the physical characteristics of cards (credit cards, ATM cards, ID cards, etc.) such as physical dimensions, bending, flame and chemical resistance, temperature and humidity resistance, toxicity, and flammability.
Credit Card
When payment systems come to mind, credit cards are usually the first thing people think of. Credit cards are produced according to specific standards, both in visual design and during printing. These standards belong to the ISO/IEC 781X family.
ATM
The Integrated Motorized Card Reader Writer is a hybrid motorized card reader/writer used in some ATM models, self-service terminals, self-service charging machines, vending machines, and media inquiry machines, supporting magnetic stripe, RFID, and IC card reading.
Fraud
Recently the following news story appeared in the papers. Two things stood out: the hacker was a former banker, and the device he used to clone cards. In banking fraud, insiders who know the system's weak points can build schemes customers never notice.
ISO 8583
We covered the ISO 8583 basics in an earlier article. This post explains the ISO 8583 message structure in detail: every ISO 8583 message consists of three main parts - the MTI (Message Type Indicator), the Bitmap, and the Data Elements.