Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> PINs stolen from Citibank ATMs
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>| The alleged thieves made off with about $2 million between October 2007 until
>| March of this year. Officials believe they remotely broke into the back-end
>| computers that approve cash withdrawals and grabbed the PINs as they were
>| being transmitted from the ATMs to the transaction processing computers,
>| which increasingly use Windows, the report says.
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>| [... from the comments ...]
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>| Windows should not be used, nor shout OS X or Linux if it is running a GUI.
>| While Windows can not be striped to a secure level and OS X is a bit of a
>| challenge, Linux is very easy to run with a very minimalistic build.
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>| Check out the NSA version of Linux.
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Anyone using Windows where security is required is asking for problems.
Banks really should know better.
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