POS system blog covers all the latest news from QUORiON plus POS related articles from the web.
Welcome the the latest POS industry news from March 2018. We gathered the usual collection of news articles discussing various point of sale topics. Most notably, the POS industry news headlines were once again dominated by malware.
To use it, you send your menu, photos and other information directly to MenuDrive and they’ll build an interactive online menu for you. You can choose from a few different payment platforms and connect it to your POS system or email to keep up with the orders. The annual plan starts at $90 per month.
After its point of sale (POS) systems were reportedly affected by malware designed to capture credit card information, RMH Franchise Holdings is warning that its Applebee’s restaurants in 15 states suffered a data breach. The company said all its 167 locations were impacted, Bank Info Security reported.
“From a malware collection point of view, it was probably easier for adversaries to send data to clearinghouses. It also may have helped them keep a little bit of distance from the POS terminals,” Bromiley said. “But, from an investigative point of view we loved it because it made the operation very noisy.”.
The malware’s executable masquerades as a legitimate Microsoft Windows program and uses names such as Svchost.exe and AG.exe. When a system has been infected — although the techniques for primary infection have not been disclosed — the malware moves across a network to PoS systems.
A point-of-sale (POS) system is more than a fancy cash register. In addition to checking out customers and recording sales data, it becomes the hub of your business, bringing together information about your sales, inventory, customers, and employees, so you can manage your business more efficiently.
POS industry news for March 2018 brought to you by QUORiON Data Systems, a POS system manufacturer. Content is collected from various sources around the Web.
… an IT employee to the store’s manager, who was asked to download a program on a computer connected to the restaurant’s point of sale systems.