Data theft at the cash

Data theft at the cash

With great effort and criminal energy unknown perpetrators have manipulated the world in wholesale credit card reader and collected the resulting data. In Britain alone amounts of damage, according to The Wall Street Journal at least 37 million "euros. vgp-ac19v10

Are affected, according to Wall Street Journal wholesale markets in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Holland and Denmark, including, for example, the chains Wal-Mart and Tesco. Incidents in Germany so far nothing is known. The captured data is sent directly from the Lesengeräten to Pakistan. vgp-ac19v37

The procedure of the alleged criminals coming from Asia is sophisticated: In the credit card reader was installed several chips that allow reading and forwarding of wireless credit card information via mobile phone. The manipulation must be done before the sale to the supermarket chains, were prepared the devices in China.

not to attract attention, were also integrated mechanisms, the recordings only in certain intervals or only for certain types of cards. The Sniffer function was deactivated completely. To further camouflage the thieves used the data for two months after the read. lenovo thinkpad x40 battery

That the whole thing with so perfidious manipulation yet noticed, is due more to a coincidence. The radio produced a security guard at a wholesale market near a card reader noise. Alerted the police discovered the additional electronics in the reader and also a significant difference in weight of 100 grams compared with unmanipulated version. Using the modified device can be discovered.

Sony dashing in front of the E-Book

Sony dashing in front of the E-Book

On the subject of E-Book will work: At the Book Fair Sony today introduced its model, with which the Germans are to be supplied in future e-books. Now it is exciting. Which business model will bring his device Amazon Kindle in Germany on the market? vgp-bpl13 battery

The book wholesaler, Libri is Sony's official partner in e-book. As the electronics giant announced today Libri will sell digital books from the spring of 2009 for the Sony Reader. The device itself will also be available at Libri, and in the bookstores in the Thalia Group. vgp-bps9 battery

At the start of the offer to thousands of digital books available to the prices is still not known. The books can be provided with a copy protection - similar to music - and it is expected that publishers make use of it also. A pass book is not at all or only with restrictions possible.

The internal memory of the Sony Reader holds 192 megabytes, which is sufficient, according to Sony for about 160 books. With an SD card or a Memory Stick, up to 16 more gigabytes available - room enough for thousands of books. Sony's reader will also open document types like PDF or Microsoft Word as well as images and music in the most common formats. 8600-times can the reader turn the pages before the battery must be recharged. This should allow browsing for days without power - Sony speaks of twelve novels on a single charge. lenovo thinkpad t400 battery

What is exciting now, as the market entry of the giants in the field will look like Amazon E-Book. The reader called Kindle and a mobile download service for Amazon in the United States is successful in the market and has also been the introduction of the Kindle in Germany announced.