Payment Card Newsflash #018

The UF Information Security Manager provided us with the following link informing us about malware targeting Point of Sale Systems:

Read details at: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-002A

The alert was issued by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (Dept. of Homeland Security) and addresses items that are familiar to us as they are also part of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and our online training course.

At the same time, the article includes valuable advice for consumers to protect our cardholder information.