Attackers Use Email Spam To Infect Point-of-Sale Terminals

jfruh writes: Point-of-sale software has meant that in many cases where once you'd have seen a cash register, you now see a general-purpose PC running point-of-sale (PoS) software. Unfortunately, those PCs have all the usual vulnerabilities, and when you run software on it that processes credit card payments, they become a tempting target for hackers. One of the latest attacks on PoS software comes in the form of malicious Word macros downloaded from spam emails.

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Predictable

[Anonymous Coward]

That's what happens when you embed Linux in your appliances...

It seems to happen all the time.