Are wardrivers zeroing in on your kiosk?
Don't look now, but the short, bald guy reclining with a laptop in his beat-up white Oldsmobile may not be surfing for reviews of "The Dark Knight." He might be hacking into a nearby store's database of debit and credit card numbers — and if he's really high-tech, he doesn't even have to leave the parking lot to do it.
TJX Companies Inc. — owner of popular apparel retailer T.J. Maxx — Barnes & Noble and seven other retailers found out the hard way how easy it is for the nefarious to peer into their point-of-sale systems. Last week, at least 11 suspects were indicted for allegedly accessing the stores' unsecured wireless wi-fi systems — via a technique known as "wardriving" — and stealing consumer card data.
