An $80M Bank Hack Has Been Blamed on $10 Routers Jamie Condliffe Today 7:30am Filed to: HACKS 26.6K 322 Image: Grant Hutchinson Sometimes it pays to spend. The central bank of Bangladesh has found that out the hard way, as police are blaming its loss of $80m during a hack on crappy $10 routers. You might […]

      The above infographic came to us from Software Advice, a site where retailers can review POS options. We spoke with their retail market researcher, Justin Guinn, about the data he uncovered and what the implications are for merchants today. Q&A with Justin Guinn: Your research uncovered how many retailers have POS software, […]

Realtime POS Offers New Retail Management System (Private Cloud, Host It Yourself Or Go Hybrid) Retailers can now choose to host a retail management system on the cloud or on premise. Retailers looking to implement a realtime retail management system can look to Realtime POS with a choice of a private cloud or on-premise solution. Real […]

  Eight Things Retailers Need To Know About EMV In The US By David Dorf, Sr. Director of Technology Strategy, Oracle Retail If you’ve received a new card from your bank in the last six months, it’s likely an EMV card with a chip.  Banks are issuing EMV cards, and retailers are installing EMV-capable terminals […]

Ponemon Study Reveals Startling Lack of Security In Mobile Apps By Christine Kern Demand for mobile apps is putting users’ private information at risk. The pressure is so great to release new mobile apps that three-quarters (77%) of companies surveyed by Ponemon and IBM report taking shortcuts on data security to get them out,according to […]

It’s Complicated: Cyber Criminals Thrive Within Complex Retail Networks By CP Morey, Director of Product Marketing, Cisco Security Group Given that a major breach seems to come up at least once a month, it’s safe to say the adversary is especially interested in targeting the retail industry. The intentions are pretty simple: steal as much […]

By inserting a failover router(pepwave in the image above) and a back up 3g/4g modem when the primary internet at your location goes out the failover router recognizes this and automatically switches the internet connection over to the back up 3g/4g with the users at the terminals not experiencing a loss in connectivity. It allows Workstations […]