Retail POS Security: Four Ways To Prevent Cybercriminals From Attacking Your Point-of-Sales Systems

Retail POS Security: Four Ways To Prevent Cybercriminals From Attacking Your Point-of-Sales Systems

The Target and Neiman Marcus (and now Michaels) data breaches generated a lot of concern for retail businesses. The data breaches were caused by memory-scraping malware that’s designed to steal customer names, credit cards numbers, and other personal information. What you should do to prevent these attacks: Upgrade outdated software to prevent infection from malware...

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Duleep Pillai
January 28, 2014
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Retail POS Security: Four Ways To Prevent Cybercriminals From Attacking Your Point-of-Sales Systems

Michael’s Craft Store Suspects They’ve Been Hit By POS Malware

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has revealed that they’ve detected 20 hacking cases over the past year that used the same POS (point of sale) infecting malware used against Target stores over the 2013 holiday shopping season.  Now Michael’s Craft Store, the largest arts and crafts dealer in the U.S. suspects it has...

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Duleep Pillai
January 26, 2014
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Retail POS Security: Four Ways To Prevent Cybercriminals From Attacking Your Point-of-Sales Systems

Test, Evaluate and Refresh Your Business Continuity Plan On A Regular Basis

Your business operates in threatening time with a diverse range of technology risks, including natural disasters, cyber-attacks, and software or hardware failures. Business continuity planning is necessary to minimize these risks and protect your valuable data. In today’s technology-driven world, most businesses rely on IT to perform critical operational functions. Essentially, information technology is embedded...

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Duleep Pillai
January 24, 2014
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Retail POS Security: Four Ways To Prevent Cybercriminals From Attacking Your Point-of-Sales Systems

How Do I Know if My Computer Network is Vulnerable to Malicious Attacks?

Cybercriminals are always looking for weak points in a network system to hack the security system of your business and get confidential information. Some hackers do it for the pleasure of wreaking havoc on security systems, while others do it for financial reasons; regardless of the reason, malicious attacks are an awful experience for businesses....

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Duleep Pillai
January 23, 2014
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