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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2017
Illusive Networks Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL;
Ofer Israeli, Tel Aviv, IL;
Tom Kahana, Gan Yavne, IL;
Tom Sela, Tel Aviv, IL;
Yariv Hashai, Holon, IL;
ILLUSIVE NETWORKS LTD., Tel Aviv, IL;
Abstract
A security system for point of sale (POS) terminals, including one or more POS processors for injecting decoy credit cards numbers into memories of corresponding one or more POS terminals, a secure database including entries of the decoy credit card numbers and, for each entry, a corresponding identifier of a specific POS terminal and a corresponding date & time, and a security manager receiving a notification of attempted use of a specific decoy credit card number, extracting the POS identifier and the date & time corresponding to the specific decoy credit card number from the database, identifying legitimate credit card numbers that were processed by the identified POS terminal during a time period including the date & time corresponding to the specific decoy credit card number, and alerting an authority that the legitimate credit card numbers may have been compromised.