Breach Forces Password Change on Oracle MICROS PoS Customers
Oracle warns its MICROS point-of-sale system customers to change account passwords after malware was discovered on a support site that was infecting users.
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Tom Spring is Editor-in-Chief of Threatpost. For the past two decades he has worked at a number of national publications in the roles of executive editor, technical editor and investigative reporter.
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