Secure payment processing system design runs Linux
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| Venerable silicon vendor Zilog demonstrated a Linux-based reference
| design for POS (point-of-sale) and financial transaction devices, at
| the CARTES security show in Paris this month. The "Zilog ECOSystem"
| runs Linux in a secure partition, sequestered from the payment network
| by VirtualLogix's VLX Real-Time Virtualization product.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9177913652.html
Earlier today, from Doug:
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| "hackers ..planted a backdoor virus program on the Website of China
| Unionpay, the country's only national electronic payment network
| operator, that may result in customer information being leaked"
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| "The backdoor program, Backdoor.BlackHole.2005.a, is capable of
| hijacking customer's computers when they visit the Website"
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| http://english.people.com.cn/200611/18/eng20061118_322836.html
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| Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 18-Nov-2006
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| Red-Hat/Linux Apache/1.3.19 28-May-2002
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| http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.chinaunionpay.com
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Linux grows quickly in that area.
Wireless POS (Point of Sale) For Linux
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| Research has shown that the number of POS (point of sale) terminals
| running Linux in North America has increased 80% since 2002. For
| hospitality providers, there?s good reason to go with Linux.
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http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=204
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