Just a few weeks ago the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning to retailers about Backoff, the point-of-sale malware responsible for the massive payment card security breach at Target during last year’s holiday season. The initial report indicated up to 600 retailers were affected, but on August 22nd the DHS issued another advisory that… Read More »
Homeland Security Warns of Retail Malware Threat
As banks and financial institutions have become harder to break into, cyber criminals have increasingly turned to targeting retail operations. According to an advisory issued last week by the DHS, the malware family known as Backoff has been identified in three forensic investigations of large-scale Point-of-Sale (POS) data breaches. The malware reads credit and debit… Read More »
6 Ways Small Retailers Can Keep Their Point-of-Sale System Safer
Point-of-Sale (POS) computers are an increasingly attractive target to hackers. The security breach at Target during the 2013 holiday season was the most serious in recent memory, but Target is hardly the only victim. It seems every week there’s a story in the news about retailers getting hacked and exposing their customers’ credit card numbers and… Read More »
