DailyTech – Hackers “Hit the Easy Button”, Breach Staples’ Credit Card System

By | October 23, 2014

Breach is reported limited to roughly dozen stores in the Northeast, may only affects a couple thousand customers

Source: www.dailytech.com

A small but growing number of retailers have safeguarded customers by ditching Windows XPe and moving to enterprise Linux distributions.  Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (LOW), the Home Depot’s chief rival, reportedly uses OpenSUSE for its PoS systems.  Papa John’s Int’l, Inc. (PZZA), America’s fourth largest takeout and pizza delivery chain, reportedly runs on Fedora Linux from Red Hat, Inc. (RHT).


Staples was using AS/400 with XPe clients (like Home Depot and like Target)

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Craig Allen Keefner is an industry analyst, content strategist, and longtime authority on self-service kiosks, digital signage, unattended payment systems, and interactive technology. He manages content and industry strategy for Kiosk Industry and The Industry Group, with a focus on kiosk software, hardware-software integration, accessibility, payment compliance, healthcare kiosks, restaurant self-service, and emerging AI automation. Craig has covered the self-service and kiosk industry since the 1990s, tracking how public-facing terminals move from concept to field deployment. His work combines industry research, vendor analysis, operator conversations, standards tracking, trade show coverage, and practical experience with the real-world constraints of kiosk deployments. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiosk