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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.
|
| [... from the comments ...]
|
| 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.
|
| Check out the NSA version of Linux.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9982500-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
McAfee reports on spam in the real world
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| Over the course of the month, McAfee's test subjects accumulated 104,000 spam
| messages, or roughly 70 per day per recipient.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10789_3-9981926-57.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Recent:
Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
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| ATMs, or automated teller machines, today face the Internet-born threat of
| worms and denial-of-service attacks, as well as being at risk from malicious
| applications that can harvest customer data or hijack machines.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6233030.html
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
Brazilian banks look to Linux for ATMs
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| Brazilian banking giant Banco do Brasil this year is preparing to start a
| massive migration of one of the world’s biggest ATM fleets to the GNU/Linux
| operating system.
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http://www.atmmarketplace.com/article.php?id=9929&prc=12&page=42
Madness: ATMs Running Windows XP?
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/02/madness-atms-running-windows-xp.html
Related:
Pictures of ATM Machine Running Windows XP Crashing
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| The other day I pulled up to an ATM and it was in the middle of crashing and
| so I was able to shoot these pics during the crash and reboot. The ATM never
| did come up fully so I was unable to get some cash.
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http://www.socialdailynews.com/2007/09/pictures-of-atm-machine-running-windows-xp-crashing/
ATM using un-activated Windows
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| Ok, so lets be realistic for a moment here, first off, is 'Hackers Best
| Friend" MS Windows really the optimal choice for an operating system that
| spits out cash?
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http://www.itdrive.com/articles/177/1/ATM-using-un-activated-Windows/Page1.html
ATM with Pirated Windows [with photos]
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| In Russian you can sometimes meet pirated copy of Windows even
| on ATM. It warns that this copy of Windows need activation and
| the work of ATM gets interrupted.
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http://englishrussia.com/?p=981#more-981
http://img505.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo06091944fe5.jpg
Why not Embedded? ATM's Running XP Professional...
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| This time, I happened to be there when it suddenly BSOD'd and began a
| reboot cycle. Obviously, to BSOD it needs to run Windows, and moments
| later, that was confirmed. But that's not the story here -- believe it or
| not, most ATMs run Windows nowadays, and there's absoloutely nothing
| wrong with that.
|
| [...]
|
| There's a million reasons why an ATM should must be RTOS, be it Linux or
| VxWorks or Windows CE, but even if you don't go with RTOS, Windows XP
| Professional most certainly isn't the answer. Especially if it's not even
| SP2.
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http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/287
ATMs hacked using MP3 player
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| A criminal gang in the U.K. was able to steal confidential banking
| data by bugging ATMs with an MP3 player, The Times of London
| reported in its online edition Thursday.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6135905.html
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