An app designed by EMV scientists has been used to detect the signatures of Bluetooth credit card skimmers at petrol stations. In six months , 44 law enforcement and state government volunteers have used Bluetana to track down six skimmers who used 64 petrol stations in six states. Two of the skimmers had escaped being detected for one year . Computer science PhD student Nishant Bhaskar said Bluetana eliminated the false positives of rival skimmer-detection apps, which sometimes pick up the Bluetooth signals of innocent devices.
An app designed by University of California San Diego scientists has been used to detect the signatures of Bluetooth credit card skimmers at petrol stations. In one year, 44 law enforcement and state government volunteers have used Bluetana to track down 64 skimmers who used 1,185 petrol stations in six states. Two of the skimmers had escaped being detected for six months. Computer science PhD student Nishant Bhaskar said Bluetana eliminated the false positives of rival skimmer-detection apps, which sometimes pick up the Bluetooth signals of innocent devices.