Backoff algorithms have been introduced to improve network performance by reducing collisions over networks, especially in large ones. The binary exponential back off used in the standard IEEE 802.11 ...

A payment card industry security consortium warned retailers on Wednesday of the urgency to secure their systems against “Backoff,” a malicious software program that steals card numbers. Backoff ...

There's a classic approach behind many of the retail cyberattacks that make the news: Backoff malware, which sniffs the traffic that flows on a network to identify and steal credit card data passed ...

A new breed of point-of-sale malware has been found in several recent attacks, and experts say that the tool, known as Backoff, has extensive data stealing and exfiltration capabilities, including ...

iPhone/iPod touch: If you carry a ton of stuff around on your iPhone or iPod touch, you know syncing it can take forever. BackOff turns off iTunes' automatic backup process so you can sync faster.

Dairy Queen said Thursday the “Backoff” point-of-sale malware infected systems at 395 of its stores, stealing payment card data. The company, which has 4,500 independently owned franchises in the U.S.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch)—A type of malware that has been used to steal personal financial data from consumers at retail stores apparently is spreading rapidly. Infections of the point-of-sale malware, ...