How safe are the POS systems at our local groceries?

Asked By Cyril L Edmonds 80 points N/A Posted on - 12/24/2014

The recent news about the Home Depot Breach has raised a very important question about the security and integrity of the Point Of Sale systems. Why is it that such large multi nationals have been falling prey to persistent hackers and have not been able to plug their security loop holes?

 

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Answered By Ion Hathew 0 points N/A #189755

How safe are the POS systems at our local groceries?

Home depot has placed encryption enhancement already. And the company already eliminated the Malware and made new payment security protection. Wherein the payment data and the card information will be scrambled out to make it impossible for hackers to obtain its usefulness. The system's protection enhancement were tested and provided by Voltage Security Inc.,

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