What the Heck Is a RAM Scraper? | Re/code: "But there’s one particular moment when that data is vulnerable, and it occurs during the milliseconds that it is stored in the system memory — a.k.a. random access memory, or RAM — of the back-end server that processes the transaction. Think of it as a package being delivered to you with a lock on it. Even though you have the key, you still have to open it to see what’s inside. The same thing happens when your credit card number gets decrypted.
And when that happens, your credit card number is briefly stored in the system memory of the server processing the payment. When that happens, that data is “in the clear,” as in unencrypted."
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