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Well that article was completely devoid of information.

Here's the post by the researchers themselves: https://srlabs.de/pos-vulns/

tldr: POS card readers have poor security - their HSMs leak their keys, and many of them don't have unique keys so you can impersonate them





The guys have also done a presentation on this in Hamburg a couple of days ago: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/Fahrplan/events/7368.htm...

Cannot find a recording yet


Recording is here: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/32c3/relive/7368/

But warning! This is pure stream dump, don’t expect high quality yet.





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