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Stealing payment card data and PINs from POS systems is dead easy

Researchers from U.S.-based POS and ATM manufacturer NCR demonstrated a stealthier and more effective attack technique that works against most “payment points of interaction” The main issue shared by all of these devices is that they don’t use authentication and encryption when sending data back to the POS payment software. The researchers showed that not only can use this attack technique to steal the data encoded on a card’s magnetic stripe, but they can also trick cardholders to expose their PIN numbers and even the security codes printed on the back of the cards.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3103502/stealing-payment-card-data-and-pins-from-pos-systems-is-dead-easy.html

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