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Some mobile POS devices still affected by critical flaws months after patch |
August 08, 2014
Security researchers demonstrated Thursday flaws that can allow hackers to take over mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) devices from different manufacturers by inserting rogue cards into them.Despite a patch being available since April, some devices remain vulnerable.Jon Butler, the head of research at MWR InfoSecurity and one of his colleagues who prefers to be known only as Nils, have investigated six of the most popular mPOS devices available on the market that support the EMV (Chip-and-PIN) standard, they said at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.These devices have a small screen, a smart card reader and a PIN input pad. They run a Linux-based OS and communicate via Bluetooth with mobile payment apps installed on smart phones.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2463080/some-mobile-pos-devices-still-affected-by-critical-flaws-months-after-patch.html#tk.rss_all
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