Mark Mason
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Mobile Point-of-Sale Vulnerabilities Expose Customer Credit Card Data
Security researchers have discovered vulnerabilities in mobile point-of-sale systems, allowing theft of customer data.
According to ZDNet, researchers at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas last week uncovered in mobile point-of-sale systems such as Square and PayPal. The vulnerabilities discovered would allow man-in-the-middle attacks to make changes to payment requests including changing the amount, as well as forcing a customer to use different, less secure forms of payment, including magstripe instead of chip. Attackers could also steal customer information such as credit card numbers, posing problems far past a simple hijacked sale.
Read more: https://www.dashforcenews.com/mobile-point-of-sale-vulnerabilities-expose-customer-credit-card-data/
Security researchers have discovered vulnerabilities in mobile point-of-sale systems, allowing theft of customer data.
According to ZDNet, researchers at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas last week uncovered in mobile point-of-sale systems such as Square and PayPal. The vulnerabilities discovered would allow man-in-the-middle attacks to make changes to payment requests including changing the amount, as well as forcing a customer to use different, less secure forms of payment, including magstripe instead of chip. Attackers could also steal customer information such as credit card numbers, posing problems far past a simple hijacked sale.
Read more: https://www.dashforcenews.com/mobile-point-of-sale-vulnerabilities-expose-customer-credit-card-data/