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Point-of-sale data breaches have now reached the cloud

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The latest in a string of hacks against retail point-of-sale systems has hit the operator of a cloud-based service with about 38,000 business clients.

Montreal-based Lightspeed reported the breach on Thursday and said it affected a system that retailers can use from tablets, smartphones and other devices.  

The incident occurs as a growing number of retailers and hotels have been targeted by hackers, who typically install malware into the point-of-sale systems to steal credit card numbers.

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Stuxnet reached its target via the networks of trusted business partners

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Stuxnet, the powerful malware that wormed its way in and hobbled Iran’s uranium enrichment efforts, infiltrated the secure networks of the nuclear program via trusted partners, newly public information reveals.

Once machines in five partner networks had been infected, Stuxnet found its way into Iran’s Natanz refining plant where it force automated control machines to run uranium enrichment centrifuges at speeds that would damage them, according to a blog written by Alex Gostev, Chief Security Expert at Kaspersky Lab.

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Network World Tim Greene