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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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Top 6 Weight Loss Apps for 2017

Galido

Nutrisystem, the createor of Numi app, is a leading weight loss program, a review of which you can read online. All you need to do is scan the barcode with your Android smartphone or iPhone, and the app will get to work. It will enable you to choose a four-week program or workout that will get you to your new lean self.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

And so you just pop that into the computer and it turns out it's run in Windows, and everything's written in dotnet. So it goes to do something but it can't actually complete it, but then it keeps stepping on so it's like the program counter kind of keeps incrementing but what it told the chip to do, there wasn't physically enough power.