This is a facepalm moment for the credit card issues and retailers.
Its either 166816 or Z66816, depending on the machine.
No wonder big retailers like Target and Home Depot keep on losing our credit card data to hackers.
gadget makers sell machines to special distributors.
These vendors sell them to retailers.
But no one thinks its their job to update the master code, Henderson told CNNMoney.
Were making it pretty easy for criminals.
To arrive at the conclusion, Trustwave researchers studied the credit card terminals at more than 120 retailers nationwide.
A spokesman for Verifone said that a password alone isnt enough to infect machines with malware.
As an afterthought the spokesperson added that Verifone said retailers are strongly advised to change the default password.
The fault however lies with the retailers as they should be securing their own machines.
Consider one case Henderson investigated recently.
A nasty keystroke-logging spy software ended up on the computer a store uses to process credit card transactions.
Frankly, its not as locked down as it should be.
source: www.techworm.net
