As a reaction to the news that Pizza Hut PoS systems suffered a year-long malware blast which caused order transmissions to fail, Tripwire security experts comment:
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/397687,pizza-huts-pos-systems-suffer-year-long-malware-blast.aspx
Lamar Bailey, director of security R&D said: “If you are a retailer it is no longer a question of if you have been compromised but a question of how large the gap is between infection and detection. Being infected for a year likely equates to tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of credit card numbers stolen along with other customer PII. This breech likely impacted the bottom line of the retailer too due to lost orders and irate customers who went elsewhere for pizza. There is no sure fire way to stop breeches but retailers need to work hard to lower the detection gaps and lessen the impact to their business and customers.”
Tim Erlin, director or security and risk at Tripwire writes: “In today’s world of memory scraping, credit card stealing advanced threats, a piece of malware that actually causes system downtime seems downright nostalgic. Pizza Hut corporate should be asking tough questions of their Australian operations in light of a year-long incident that included significant downtime and loss of business.”