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

Network World

But there are easier ways to steal this sort of data, due to a lack of authentication and encryption between card readers and the POS payment applications. They typically run Windows and have peripherals like keyboards, touch screens, barcode scanners and card readers with PIN pads. POS systems are specialized computers.

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Google expands shopping searches with Lens and in-store inventory checks

The Verge

If you enjoy window shopping or browsing curated collections at a brick-and-mortar store for inspiration, finding something online you don’t yet know you want or are unaware of is tricky if you start with a text search. Now, it wants more window shopping to be done right from Google search. Image: Google.

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Traveling (Part 2) - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

No matter where I am, it becomes much easier to find the numbers from the app (which will display the barcode if there is one to be scanned) then to have a keychain or wallet filled with all the different cards. Windows Phone. I store all of my hotel, supermarket, drug store and rental car numbers in it. Select Category. Enterprise.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

Smart Meters provide the data to support a cleaner future, showing how much energy is being used and how much this will cost you. In particular, he was reading the data off of the various smart meters learning when they were last shut off. I logged all that data. You know, it's I was talking about this and the data and whatever.