POS on the net

[droxy]

If you bought a book from barnes and nobel, check this out:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/10/24/barnes-noble-pin-pad-credit-card/?utm_source=Naked+Security+-+Sophos+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=e0fce13f42-naked%252Bsecurity

LOL- some of my industry drama. 
Huawei has been ripping off designs and intellectual property as far back as 1995,

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[beffeysue]

And the beat goes on...
*bomp bomp bomp bomp*
And the beat goes on.

As aggravating as all this is, what goes around comes around.
I just hope my 401k is doing all right when I get ready to retire.

[lemonade8]

I wondered why the pos machines all disappeared. Luckily I don't live in the states mentioned, but YIKES! And it took you to tell me, none of the B&N people did when I brought it up. But, having worked for Marshalls (when some hackers parked outside a store and retrieved all of the sales information from their laptops), we were told we couldn't talk to the customers about it but had to refer them to a manager so they could make sure the correct information *exactly* was given. It was to avoid misinformation and angry customers.

[shanemagnum]

I had seen a FB post about the "offensive wall posts" but kind of disregarded it as just another hoax. But I guess it's real!
For those people who use FB a lot, getting an email from FB would seem really odd. (Apparently, the more you use it, the less emails they send you.) I don't get ANY emails from them unless someone tagged me in something. And then, all those messages just get automatically filtered into a folder. I never even see them. So I'm thinking this won't affect too many FB users.
I did get a little worried about the Barnes and Noble one, until I saw what states it was in. Dodged a bullet there. Only reason I go in there is for Starbucks, so I wonder if it affected those machines as well, or just the regular registers?

[celtickittenmew]

Thanks for the advice. I will definitely protect my computer.