How That Fast Food Menu Could Actually Steal Your Credit Card

Restaurants are loaded with internet-connected technologies and in today’s age of digital transformation, the rate at which new technologies are being onboarded feels like an all-out arms race.As consumer demand for digital conveniences increases, restaurants are pushed to meet, rather than exceed, expectations for quality, speed and convenience. However, in the rush to keep up and deploy new technologies, more often than not, additional security vulnerabilities are introduced. Restaurants and fast food chains have always been a prime target for cybercriminals due to their high volume of low dollar credit card transactions and typically lagging security posture.

In the past, standard security measures – firewall, antivirus and even encryption – were a solid response to the cyber threats facing diners. 

A successful intrusion into the digital menu board web server could be the foothold a hacker needs to make a hop or two into the POS and begin exfiltrating credit card…