PoSeidon: New Malware Family Targets Retailers’ Payment Systems

This type of Point-of-Sale malware will continue to be a problem as long as card transactions are transmitted from pin pad to the lane CPU in clear text.  Hardware level encryption at the swipe is a good way to combat this type of CPU memory level attack, but that swipe must remain encryption all the way through the transmission process to the acquiring bank.

http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/latest-security-news/poseidon-new-malware-family-targets-retailers-payment-systems/

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