Hacking Point of Sale: Payment Application Secrets, Threats, and Solutions
Slava Gomzin
Language: English
Pages: 312
ISBN: 1118810112
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Must-have guide for professionals responsible for securing credit and debit card transactions
As recent breaches like Target and Neiman Marcus show, payment card information is involved in more security breaches than any other data type. In too many places, sensitive card data is simply not protected adequately. Hacking Point of Sale is a compelling book that tackles this enormous problem head-on. Exploring all aspects of the problem in detail - from how attacks are structured to the structure of magnetic strips to point-to-point encryption, and more – it's packed with practical recommendations. This terrific resource goes beyond standard PCI compliance guides to offer real solutions on how to achieve better security at the point of sale.
- A unique book on credit and debit card security, with an emphasis on point-to-point encryption of payment transactions (P2PE) from standards to design to application
- Explores all groups of security standards applicable to payment applications, including PCI, FIPS, ANSI, EMV, and ISO
- Explains how protected areas are hacked and how hackers spot vulnerabilities
- Proposes defensive maneuvers, such as introducing cryptography to payment applications and better securing application code
Hacking Point of Sale: Payment Application Secrets, Threats, and Solutions is essential reading for security providers, software architects, consultants, and other professionals charged with addressing this serious problem.
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Between Void and Return is that Void cannot be performed without a link to the original Sale transaction, while Return can be initiated any time. Void is just a cancellation of a previously existing payment, while Return is placing the money into the cardholder’s account without any connection to previous activity. In other words, it is much easier to use Return to steal money from a merchant’s account and put it into the bad guy’s account. Also, Void transactions (if implemented correctly by.
Application and the processor are developed by the latter. While there’s a solid standardization and regulation of the payment card format (such as physical characteristics of the magnetic stripe and format of magnetic tracks), there is a clear lack of similar standards in the message-protocols area. Despite the fact that a formal industry standard exists for financial transaction messages c02.indd 08:3:32:AM 01/16/2014 Page 36 Chapter 2 ■ Payment Application Architecture (ISO 85835), the.
Gas pump, or automated kiosk are the easiest fraud targets because there is no one present who could determine the authenticity of the plastic. ■ Most physical controls can be easily counterfeited. Unlike high tech features such as EMV chips, regular physical controls can be easily replicated at home. (The “Producing Counterfeit Card” section in this chapter contains more details about required equipment.) ■ Validation of physical protection features is not mandatory and often omitted by.
Https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents /pa-dss_v2.pdf 24. PCI DSS Requirements and Security Assessment Procedures Version 2.0, PCI SSC (October 2010), https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents /pci_dss_v2.pdf 25. California Bill SB-1386, California State Senate (July 2003), http://info .sen.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/sen/sb_1351-1400/sb_1386 _bill_20020926_chaptered.html 26. State Security Breach Notification Laws, The National Conference of State Legislatures,.
Players, I would like to remind you that the scope of this book is security of POS and associated payment applications which are located in brick-and-mortar stores. Despite the fact that merchants account for a relatively small percentage of the overall payment processing life cycle, their portion of responsibility and risk is incomparably larger than anyone else’s share. There are several reasons for this: 1. First, merchants have a very distributed structure compared to others—a typical retail.