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

Network World

They typically run Windows and have peripherals like keyboards, touch screens, barcode scanners and card readers with PIN pads. These malware programs are known as memory or RAM scrapers because they scan the system's memory for credit card data when it's processed by the payment application on the POS system.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

He joins The Hacker Mind to talk about his journey, about mesh networks, and even glitching. And so we kind of started just like musing, you know, over a beer of like, well, what other networks How could you set something up? Like what if you could piggyback on that network somehow? That they're only using smartphones?