Packet Sniffer Breaches Restaurant's Data Security
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
A fascinating story in SearchSecurity.com reports that three men have been indicted for deploying packet sniffers to steal credit-card and debit-card numbers at 11 Dave & Buster's restaurants. The federal indictment includes charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, aggravated identity theft and other crimes, all of which occurred last year. At each restaurant, the packet sniffer created a file to store the data until the suspects collected the information. A defect in the malware forced the men to regularly reactivate the sniffer whenever the server rebooted.
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