Restaurants, Beware: Hackers Want Your Customer Data - 1 views
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The simple fact is that cyber criminals today want information that they can use to make money
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We found that nearly 90 percent of attacks were designed to steal customer information including cardholder data, e-mail addresses and account information.
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many restaurants and franchise businesses, unsecure and public WiFi networks are conveniently (for the criminal) connected to point of sale systems.
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Think of the scenario of a hotel that maintains a restaurant, a spa, as well as other services all connected to one POS system
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Franchise businesses are particularly at risk primarily because franchises tend to have the same POS system duplicated at all locations
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Most of the time these business don’t have trained security professionals on staff; instead most assume their IT personnel are taking care of all of their security needs.
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76 percent of environments we investigated had a third party introduce a security flaw within the environment that contributed to criminals being able to compromise data.
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Another alarming trend we found in our investigations was that self-detection of breaches decreased in 2011, and only 16 percent of victimized organizations actually detected the breach themselves.
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The best intrusion detection systems are neither security experts nor expensive technology, but employees.
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The cashier reported it to the company’s security hotline and sure enough there was a cybercriminal on the system.
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When working with third parties, always build in security requirements into the contract and impose policies and procedures such as good password policies to ensure tight control and better security.
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The quicker an organization can identify an issue and respond to a breach, the less likely they will experience the deep penalties, both financial and to their brand.
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The article I read was called, "Restaurants, Beware: Hackers Want Your Customer Data." In the article it talked about how cyber criminals want credit card information from people so that they can make money off of them. Criminals find new ways everyday to breach systems and steal information from guests staying at hotels or eating in restaurants. It states that many restaurants and franchise businesses use unsecure and public WiFi networks are connected to the point of sale system. "Franchise businesses are particularly at risk primarily because franchises tend to have the same POS system duplicated at all locations." A lot of times businesses don't have trained security on staff, they just assume that their IT person will be talking care of the security. According to the article the best detection systems are neither the technology nor the security but it's the employees who work there. The employees can tell when something has changed in the system and as soon as they realize that, they need to report it to their manager. I never even considered people breaking into the systems and stealing credit card information but it does happen and it's important to know what to do in these kinds of situations.