Eclypsium last year analyzed device drivers from major vendors and found that over 40 drivers made by 20 companies contained serious vulnerabilities that could be exploited to deploy persistent malware. The firm now warns that the Windows drivers used in ATMs and PoS devices can be highly useful to threat actors targeting these types of […]
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Millions of point-of-sale systems and hotel room locks can be hacked by temporarily placing a small, inexpensive device several inches away from their card readers. The device, due to be presented Sunday at the DEF CON conference in Las Vegas, is the creation of Weston Hecker, a senior security engineer at Rapid7. It was inspired […]
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Omni Hotels disclosed that several of its hotel properties were impacted by malware infecting its point-of-sale (PoS) systems. In an attempt to miss the news cycle and fly below the radar, companies often make data breach incidents public on Friday afternoons. While Omni Hotels is not alone in this tactic, the company did go a […]
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