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As point-of-sale systems embrace mainstream software, it have to deal with the security threats that come with it. Connected point-of-sale (POS) systems - that's the checkout to you and me - are the most recent targets of the cybercriminal. Checkout technology has been getting steadily more intelligent over the last decade, and if checkout systems are starting to look more like standard personal computers than electronic cash registers, it's because they are increasingly adopting much of the same technology.