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Point of Sale (POS) systems are notoriously easy to hack. Hardly a month goes by that we don\u2019t hear of some vendor or another having had their POS system breached, exposing customer credit card and other personal data.<\/p>\nPoint of Sale (POS) systems are notoriously easy to hack. Hardly a month goes by that we don\u2019t hear of some vendor or another having had their POS system breached, exposing customer credit card and other personal data.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s always the same story. X numbers of users are impacted, notified and told to watch their credit cards for signs of suspicious activity. In that regard, POS attacks have been kind of a \u201cone trick pony\u201d for a very long time.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s changing, however.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a new type of POS attack that\u2019s been detected recently, and it\u2019s both frustrating and difficult to spot.<\/p>\n
The new attack vector doesn\u2019t seek to harvest payment data, but rather, to change the prices of the products being sold.<\/p>\n
There are essentially two ways a hacker could use this to his advantage. First, he could modestly raise the price on a given item such that at a glance, busy webmasters might not notice the slight increase.<\/p>\n
The difference could simply be quietly swept into the hackers\u2019 bank account and the vendor would be none the wiser.<\/p>\n
The much more damaging approach could be that the hacker simply creates a custom promo code that allows him to, say, purchase a new X-Box for a dollar.<\/p>\n
Imagine how devastating this would be to a company\u2019s bottom line if their flagship product started selling online for a buck, and nobody caught it for a week, a month or more.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s exactly the kind of thing hackers can do with the new attack vector.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re in the business of selling to consumers online, be on your guard against this. Your own pricing data isn\u2019t something you\u2019ve had to double check historically, but now, failing to do so could result in a catastrophic loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Point of Sale (POS) systems are notoriously easy to hack. Hardly a month goes by that we don\u2019t hear of some vendor or another having had their POS system breached, exposing customer credit card and other personal data. It\u2019s always the same story. X numbers of users are impacted, notified and told to watch their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,30],"yoast_head":"\n