Category: point of sale

Visa warns that hackers are scraping card details at gas pumps

Post author By Randall
Post date December 16, 2019
Categories In cybercrime, gas stations, gear, point of sale, pos malware, scraping, Security, Tech, visa

[ad_1] The hack doesn’t appear to affect more security chip-and-pin cards, but not all consumers have those, so service stations often work with mag stripe readers, too. The data is apparently sent in an unencrypted form to the vendor’s main network, where the thieves have figured out how to intercept it. The other problem is […]

Juul will require retailers to scan IDs before selling its vapes

Post author By Randall
Post date August 29, 2019
Categories In business, e-cigarette, e-cigs, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, id, juul, medicine, point of sale, pos, retail, retailers, scan, stores, Tech, teen, vaping, verification

[ad_1] These new Retail Access Control Standards (RACS) are Juul’s latest attempt to curb teen vaping. More than 50 retail chains — a total of more than 40,000 outlets — have agreed to comply. Juul will stop distributing products to retailers who aren’t RACS-certified by May 2021. And because the company recognizes that updating POS […]