Secure swipe machine with help of biometric security

Security has become a great issue in these days in every organization. Sending information from one person to other person encounters a lot of problems due to many types of attack on the communication network. Apart from these attacks on communication network, attackers attacks on the physical access medium. Physical access includes access control, authentication, and verification. An attacker can read the information of the magnetic strip of a credit or debit card by installing a skimming device on electronic data capture machine (or swipe machine). This paper gives a proposal for securing electronic data capture machine's transaction by adding biometric with the traditional PIN. In this proposal, a fingerprint biometric technique is embedded with PIN (personal identification number) to authenticate a customer and for enhancing the security of electronic fund transfer via EDC.