Credit card hackers are said to have targeted a number of hotels, possibly as far back as February 2015.
Tag Archives: point of sale
Retailers are “overconfident” about their security, majority have fundamental gaps
Happy holidays! Lots of us are shopping away, but a new report finds that retailers aren’t doing enough to keep impish cyber crooks out of our business. 
It’s only logical – the BIGGER the bank, the BIGGER the breach! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s the latest 60 Second Security for your viewing pleasure. News, advice, opinion and research – and it only takes a minute…
Point-of-Sale vendor loses password, causes breaches at 324 US restaurants
In its own words, a US point-of-sale vendor “acts to Block Payment Card Security Incident.” Bit late for the 324 restaurants that were breached for between 3 days and 3 months in the incident…
Home Depot says, “Er, yes, we did have a breach actually”
Just how big and bad it will turn out to be is still unknown…all we know so far is that Home Depot has officially confirmed that, yes, there was indeed a breach.
SSCC161 – What do you mean, “Trade him for Edward Snowden”? [PODCAST]
Here’s the latest Chet Chat security podcast! Sophos experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin once again turn plain old news into advice you can use.
US won’t release Russian MP’s son being held on PoS hacking charges
A US federal court has refused to release Roman Seleznev, arrested in the Maldives under suspicion of rigging retail PoS systems to rip off credit card details. Prosecutors say he was caught with over 2 million stolen cards on his laptop and that he’d been searching the US federal court electronic filing system for charges against him. 
SSCC 159 – What can we learn from the “honeybot”? [PODCAST]
For your listening pleasure! Here’s this week’s episode of the Sophos Security Chet Chat podcast…
Bad passwords on PoS terminals leads to card stealing Backoff malware
More point of sale malware has been making the news, designed to steal credit card information as usual. This time the crooks are distributing the malware through remote control applications like Microsoft’s RDP. No exploits, no social engineering, just good old fashioned password guessing.
SSCC 155 – cybercrime bust, cloud laws, phishing and malware back from extinction [PODCAST]
In this episode, Sophos experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin tackle the week’s interesting security stories. John and Duck get stuck into: a high-profile cybercrime arrest; how mainstream brands help phishers; and why macro malware is making a comeback.