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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2015
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Uri Fleyder, Giv'at Shmuel, IL;
Rotem Kerner, Tel Aviv, IL;
Zeev Rabinovich, Tel Aviv, IL;
Rotem Salinas, Netanya, IL;
Lior Ben-Porat, Petah Tikva, IL;
Daniel Frank, Giv'at Shmuel, IL;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method includes selectively implementing, via a component resident and executing on a point of sale system, one or more of a set of proactive operations to counter an information theft attack against the point of sale system. The set of proactive operations comprises: generating false information that appears to be actual information and creating at least one process executable in the point of sale system that comprises the false information; injecting false information that appears to be actual information into at least one process executing in the point of sale system; replacing actual information with false information that appears to be actual information; and blocking at least one process in the point of sale system to prevent actual information from being taken from the point of sale system.