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Newland’s N910 and N700 Android SmartPOS terminals achieve Common.SECC certification


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Published February 20, 2023

Fujian Newland Payment Technology Co., Ltd. (Newland), a global leader in the supply of high-performance payment devices and secure management infrastructure, is delighted to announce that its bestselling N910 and N700 Smart POS terminals have received Common.SECC certification.

Fujian Newland Payment Technology Co., Ltd. (Newland), a global leader in the supply of high-performance payment devices and secure management infrastructure, is delighted to announce that its bestselling N910 and N700 Smart POS terminals have received Common.SECC certification. With this new security approval, Newland will begin deploying its high-performance Android payment devices in markets like Germany and the UK, which require additional security measures.

Common.SECC is an international security certification scheme for card payment terminals (also known as points of interaction or POIs). Currently Common.SECC covers payment terminals deployed at merchants in Germany and the UK, but this scope may be extended to other countries that are interested in adopting the Common.SECC standard. In Germany, the Common.SECC process replaces many aspects of the local terminal security evaluation process. It is now used in place of the previous UK Common Criteria security evaluation process in the UK.

With this prestigious certification, Newland retains its position as a high-security device supplier and demonstrates the robust security credentials of its Android Smart POS product series. With a 5” colour touchscreen and sleek, ergonomic footprint and built-in printer, N910 allows merchants to combine cash register and store management software with payment and value-add service applications. Its sister product, the N700, runs on the same core platform, but enables greater mobility with a slim-line compact design, wireless connectivity for external printers and enhanced scanning capabilities that can be used for QR code payments as well as scanning barcodes, for initiating a sale or carrying out stock checks. Both N910 and N700 benefit from Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 4G communication options and support all major international contact and contactless payment cards and NFC…

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Hackers stole passwords from 140,000 payment terminals


An Android-based payment system has been affected by hackers who have been able to infiltrate its database and gain access to 140,00 payment terminals globally, according to TechCrunch.

The brand, Wiseasy, is well known in the Asia-Pacific region, with its payment terminals used in restaurants, hotels, retail outlets, and schools. Its accompanying Wisecloud cloud service is used for remote management and configuration for its customer’s terminals.

The Wiseasy point of sale system on a table.

Hackers were able to gain access to Wiseasy’s systems through employees’ computer passwords being stolen by malware and ending up on the dark web marketplace, Buguard chief technology officer Youssef Mohamed told TechCrunch.

Buguard is a penetration testing and dark web monitoring startup that observed the hacking of Wiseasy and noted that the bad actors were able to gain control of two of the company’s cloud dashboards, including an “admin” account. Notably, the popular payment system brand lacked commonly recommended security features, such as two-factor authentication.

The publication was able to view screenshots of Wiseasy’s “admin” user account, which shows how the service can control payment terminals remotely, have access to various user data, and have configuration control, such as being able to add users, seeing Wi-Fi names, and plaintext passwords of connected payment terminals. Access in the wrong hands can easily cause such a situation.

Buguard also said its attempts to collaborate with Wiseasy in early July to address the issue were met with canceled meetings. At this point, Mohamed is unable to say whether the breach has been resolved. However, a Wiseasy spokesperson, Ocean An, told TechCrunch that the company had fixed the issue in-house and added two-factor authentication to its systems.

It remains unknown whether Wiseasy will directly tell customers about this hack, according to TechCrunch.

Many cyber-security issues have to do with hackers working to take over control of various programs or services from the back end. A recently resolved zero-day vulnerability was Follina (CVE-2022-30190), which granted hackers access to the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT).

This tool is commonly associated…

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Broken NFC terminals, lack of retail support stifling Apple Pay usage

Apple Pay got off to a hot start after its debut in October, attracting 11% of all credit card-using households and converting 66% of iPhone 6 users in its first four months on the market, according to an ongoing study of more than 3,000 credit card users conducted by market research firm Phoenix Marketing International.

Although iPhone users appeared eager to try out Apple’s new mobile payment plan – the study estimates that more than 88% of those who set up an Apple Pay wallet went on to make a purchase with it either in a retail store or in a mobile app – they have run short on opportunities to use them in the time since.

“The demand is there: 59% of Apple Pay users have gone into a store and asked to make a purchase with Apple Pay,” Greg Weed, Phoenix Marketing International director of research, said in a statement. “But so is the disappointment: 47% visited a store that was listed as an Apple Pay merchant only to find out that the specific store they visited did not accept (or were not ready to accept) Apple Pay.”

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