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To: BlueMondaySkipper
From there they could deploy the malicious code to the POS devices...

I'll say! Actually I do. Devices that are targets for this kind of attack shouldn't be able to be remotely flashed with new software. It's convenient for the people who manage them, but so what, it's not their money to be putting at risk.

44 posted on 01/16/2014 2:58:47 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking
Devices that are targets for this kind of attack shouldn't be able to be remotely flashed with new software. It's convenient for the people who manage them, but so what, it's not their money to be putting at risk.

Barring doing the safest thing (not allowing remote flashing of code) they should at minimum have monitoring that alerts when code is added or changed.

45 posted on 01/16/2014 3:26:00 PM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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