PoS Attacking the traveling salesman - DEFCON 2014

CENSUS researchers Alex Zacharis and Nikos Tsagkarakis presented their Point-of-Sale exploitation work entitled “PoS Attacking the Traveling Salesman” at this year’s DEFCON conference in Las Vegas, USA.

The talk illustrated vulnerabilities of airport point-of-sale systems that could be used by adversaries to collect passenger data.

Material from this talk can be found here:

• Presentation Slides
• The “Aztec Revenge” Tool

The presentation was a success and caught the attention of various technology blogs:

• http://insights.wired.com/profiles/blogs/defcon-22-hacking-airports-airplanes-airwaves
• https://blog.bit9.com/2014/08/20/2014-def-con-hacking-conference-bit9-carbon-black-roundup-with-photos/
• http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/vulnerability-management/defcon-22-hacking-airports-airplanes-and-airwaves/

We would like to thank the organizers of DEFCON for hosting this great event and hope to meet everyone again next year!

• Tags: airport security , conference , defcon , exploitation , point of sale , pos , talk