One simple solution: Cover the PIN pad with your hand, bag or something else, just as you would at a walk-up ATM—though, as Krebs notes, that can be physically difficult to do from your car.

LONG BEACH, Miss. -- Triton has taken another step in preventing ATM fraud, as the Encrypting PIN Pads (EPP) on the Triton RL5000 and FT5000 ATM have been certified as being compliant with new ...

The researchers, Nir Valtman and Patrick Watson, showed that if a malicious actor can take control of the information flowing from an external PIN pad (i.e., a card reader not connected to an ATM ...

As for safety, Bader said ATM machines will still require your pin number and the phone itself could actually add security for users. "I think it's an extra layer," he said.

I have long known that ATM-only cards could be used at just about any point-of-sale location where there's a PIN pad, so the four-digit PIN can be entered. But it appears that in some cases, an ...