Rapid7 Researchers Pinpoint Point-of-Sale Vulnerabilities
None of these attacks should be possible in this capacity, yet the majority of point-of-sale devices is vulnerable to this type of attack. Most people are well aware of how using credit cards is becoming a significant security risk these days. Not just online, where data breaches are running rampant these days. But also in real life, as Hotel point-of-sale devices are vulnerable to attacks and malware injections. The world needs a better way to transfer money between users; that much is certain. The annual DefCon conference is a great event where security researchers showcase their recent....
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In the medium term, technical analysts and traders believe Bitcoin (BTC) is headed for an extended uptrend. For BTC to reach for a new all-time high, traders pinpoint $13,000 as the main resistance level. In the past two years and a half, Bitcoin surpassed $13,000 only once in July 2019. The price of BTC briefly […]
These vulnerabilities are reminders that improvements come with trade-offs – and that security and usability are two sides of the same coin.
Despite the wide variety of cyber attacks against companies and individual users all over the world, far too many websites contain security vulnerabilities. Hackers have a relatively easy time to gain access to centralized databases and obtain sensitive user information. Three In Four Sites Have Security Vulnerabilities. A new report by Symantec paints a rather painful picture for enterprises and individual website owners who collect consumer data. Considering how close to three in four sites have security vulnerabilities which have gone unpatched for quite some time now, the situation is....
'Catastrophe' may have been the word of choice at a blockchain security conference held at Stanford University yesterday. While cryptocurrencies and private blockchains heighten financial control to a degree, there's plenty that could go wrong with the new systems, and, perhaps spurred by interest from governments and institutions, experts from a range of disciplines are trying to pinpoint those unknowns. The Blockchain Protocol Analysis and Security Engineering 2017 conference was brimming with examples of how this thinking is taking hold across the ecosystem's disparate sectors. Even....