Category Archives: point of sale

MarginEdge, a restaurant management software company, raises $18M

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MarginEdge’s tool is a restaurant management app that works with a business’ point of sale to streamline inventory, cost-tracking, ordering and recipes to eliminate the paperwork. Continue reading MarginEdge, a restaurant management software company, raises $18M→

NFC Flaws in POS Devices and ATMs

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It’s a series of vulnerabilities:

Josep Rodriguez, a researcher and consultant at security firm IOActive, has spent the last year digging up and reporting vulnerabilities in the so-called near-field communications reader chips used in millions of ATMs and point-of-sale systems worldwide. NFC systems are what let you wave a credit card over a reader — rather than swipe or insert it — to make a payment or extract money from a cash machine. You can find them on countless retail store and restaurant counters, vending machines, taxis, and parking meters around the globe…

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Security Issues in PoS Terminals Open Consumers to Fraud

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Point-of-sale terminal vendors Verifone and Ingenico have issued mitigations after researchers found the devices use default passwords. Continue reading Security Issues in PoS Terminals Open Consumers to Fraud→