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Juul will require retailers to scan IDs before selling its vapes

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By May 2021, anyone looking to purchase a Juul e-cig will have to have their ID scanned. Juul announced today that it will soon require all retailers to use an updated point-of-sale (POS) system. When Juul products are scanned, the POS will prompt th...

How To Prevent Becoming The Next Target

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Welcome to another installment in my cybersecurity for business owners series. Black Hat held a good webinar today on securing POS (Point of Sale) Systems.  I published an article on this topic...

Did Target Malware Teen Take A Piece Of The Pie?

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Security firm IntelCrawler has released evidence supporting the identity of the programmer behind the BlackPOS malware that infected Target and other major U.S. retailers as the 17-year-old Russian...
    






BlackPOS Malware Used In Target Attack On +70 Million Customers Retails For $1,800

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The massive data breach at Target during the 2013 holiday shopping season which the retailer now admits affected from 70 to 110 million customers used an inexpensive “off the shelf” malware...
    






Groupon launches Breadcrumb, officially enters the point-of-sale system market

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Groupon launches Breadcrumb, officially enters the pointofsale system market

A few months ago, Groupon quietly scooped up a New York-based startup by the name of Breadcrumb, which, back then, was presumably regarded as a sign of POS-related things to come from the deal-sharing company. Today, nearly five months after its snappy acquisition, Groupon's officially relaunching launching Breadcrumb, marking the outfit's formal entrance into the point-of-sale game with its own iPad-based system. Groupon says Breadcrumb will be a great choice for all business owners interested, thanks in large part to its "easy-to-use and affordable" POS iPad system -- one which will start off at $99 per month and will include an all-in-one Breadbox that packs all the necessary tools to get up and running, as well as handy 24/7 support from restaurant and bar geniuses. You can get a better feel for what Breadcrumb's all about in the video below -- and please, please don't forget to clean after yourself.

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Groupon launches Breadcrumb, officially enters the point-of-sale system market originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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CyanogenMod releases SimplyTapp NFC payment app for CM9, launches CM9.1

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If you decided to change your NFC Phone's OS over to CyanogenMod 9 to avoid all the skinning and restricting, now you have a mobile payment option called SimplyTapp. Produced by the modding group and two of its members, the app requires free or paid NFC cards from CyanogenMod or retailers like McDonald's and Whole Foods. Card user info is guarded in the cloud, which "allows separation of the card credential from the vulnerable handset," for increased security, according to CM and SimplyTapp. CyanogenMod also announced a new version of its ICS-based CM9 OS, version 9.1, which will fix bugs and add new devices. A stable release will be coming soon, but meanwhile, why not head over to Mickey D's and freak them out by paying with your modded Galaxy Nexus?

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CyanogenMod releases SimplyTapp NFC payment app for CM9, launches CM9.1 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Aug 2012 06:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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PayPal buys Card.io visual credit card scanner platform, is neither Here nor there

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PayPal buys Cardio visual credit card scanner platform, is neither Here nor there Thought PayPal was done upping its mobile payment game when it unveiled its triangular Square competitor earlier this year? Think again. Despite Here being, well, here, PayPal's not satisfied having but one way to scan your plastic, and so it's snapped up Card.io. In case you've forgotten, Card.io gathers credit card info visually using a smartphone's camera -- no scanning dongle required -- to save fingers and thumbs from having to enter payment info manually. Oh, and for folks fearing that PayPal would pull the plug on other apps' access to Card.io's SDK, not to worry -- PayPal assures us that Card.io's technology will remain available to developers.

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PayPal buys Card.io visual credit card scanner platform, is neither Here nor there originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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99Bill smartphone card reader pushes mobile payments for China, pretends it’s never heard of Square

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Jostling for attention among a crowd of China-focused smartphone card readers, 99Bill's card reader has now been officially revealed. It plugs into your headphone jack and communicates with apps on both iOS and Android. The familiar-looking reader supports both passcode and signature security -- China matches several European countries where passcode cards are the more common option. The company has already hooked up with three insurance companies, but it's keeping quiet on the rates it'll charge per transaction and any further expansion plans. 99Bills lays down why it should be your go-to choice for smartphone payments in mainland China right after the break.

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99Bill smartphone card reader pushes mobile payments for China, pretends it's never heard of Square originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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