A new kind of point-of-sale (POS) malware is presently active across North America and Canada. Dubbed by cyber security experts as MajikPOS Malware, it is a variant of FastPOS and ModPOS – POS data stealing malware. Since January 2017 it is believed to have stolen data...
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Restaurant and Retailers are consistently harassed by cyber threats. Some of the top-notch businesses to mention are Target, Wendy’s and such brands have been the main targets of such humongous security breaches leaving the customer’s critical data at risk. Busin...
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Security breaches are common in the retail industry these days. We hear of POS malware strikes and POS security breaches very frequently and now retail stores pay too much attention to data security. But ask security experts and analysts and they’d say that there are m...
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As per cyber security-related survey reports, 2016 has witnessed a decline in the incidence of POS malware attacks and Point of Sale security breaches. The last two years had seen POS malware evolving into a great security threat worldwide. POS malware had been impacting bus...
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Mobile POS (Point of Sale), also referred to as mPOS, makes things easy for sellers as well as buyers. But if sufficient care is not taken while choosing a Mobile Point of Sale system and also in securing it from threats, then mobile POS could turn a big headache for sellers...
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POS security breach has sort of happened a routine affair now; every now and then we get to hear news of POS systems being hacked and data being stolen. There have been many instances of hackers getting away with personal data of thousands of people by means of targeting and...
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Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants has confirmed that a payment card security incident had occurred at more than 60 of its hotels and restaurants. POS malware had infected POS devices at these locations leading to a data breach that resulted in theft of customers’ paymen...
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In September 2015, cyber security experts reported the discovery of a new sophisticated PoS malware called as – Trojan.MWZLesson, that was capable of launching DDOS attacks. Typical POS malware attacks POS hardware and software. However, this new strain was a mix of differen...
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A massive hack has taken place at Oracle Corp. Cyber criminals have successfully broken into hundreds of computer systems at Oracle Corp. What is known till now is that the hack has completely compromised the online support portal for MICROS customers. MICROS is a leading gl...
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POS security is not to be taken lightly; it’s directly related to the payment data security at any point of sale terminal. There are different methods used to steal payment data from POS terminals. These include malware attacks, skimming, tampering and of course using...
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