It recently came out that a McDonalds kiosk in Australia was hacked. The following video shows two young men tricking the kiosk into giving them free food.
Kiosk hacking has become common place in the news. In addition to the McDonald’s kiosk hack, HR kiosks have recently been hacked and there have also been incidents with smart city kiosks being hacked.
Self-service kiosks are everywhere from street corners to grocery stores and hackers are gunning for your customer’s data. Payment kiosks in particular are attractive targets because cardholder data is easy to monetize.
In this article I’m going to cover several techniques for hardening your kiosks security. Many of these kiosk hardening techniques involves functional changes to your kiosk application, so you’ll need to get your developers involved.
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