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Citibank Tries to Hush ATM Crypto Vulnerability
palme999 writes "Citibank is trying to get a gag order for new
vulnerabilities found in the cryptographic equipment commonly used to protect the PINs of ATM transactions. The vulnerabilities came to light during a court case involving 'phantom' ATM transactions that users deny making but that banks still charge to customers accounts because they claim their systems are secure."
How do bank atm lines work anyways? Are they over phone or satelite? Has anyone ever managed to break into them remotely?
up 12 days, 22:30, 2 users, load averages: 993.20, 994.21, 994.56
*makes note to limit user processes...
I wonder how much that court case cost to take on a huge corporation like Citibank because they blatantly charged you $1 per transaction for a dozen transactions that never happened last month. Hardly seems worth the effort to save $12, but I'm glad someone is fighting for the little guys...
Who needs security when the system can't even run stabily?
That's like saying people on 56k dialup who are online for about an hour a day on average don't need firewalls.
Heck, I get a firewall up before I even think about going online!
I swear this is a duplicate from today but I can't find the original post. Am I going crazy?
/syle
As a Swede, I'm supposed to trust someone calling himself Palme?
How about we got a link to the submitters profile so that we can value the content of his story in perspective of what he has written in the comments previously?
Not that I wouldn't trust a story like this normally, but I'm having some major trust issues with anyone _choosing_ a screen name that in any part contains the word "palme".
(For everyone to whom the word "palme" means nothing, Palme was the socialist prime minister of Sweden between 1969-1976 and 1982 to his assasination in 1986.)
Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Informative? C'mon! I cannot read that. In fact, I stared at it cross-eyed and saw a sailship!
IMHO, I think that was just karma-whoring FP. Anyone else would have thought to hit the preview button. Please, if you are going to mirror or post the text, please preview and make sure it will not throw somebody into seizures...
The hell with content I say! This is Slashdot, we're all about sensationalist editorilizing!
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
This was supposed to be an homage to becoming a moderator, and yet in hindsight, giving that it's a first post, and there is some thinly-veiled sexual references, I can honestly see how this was not well received.
~Airrage.
"This isn't a study in computer science, its a study in human behavior"
Nothing to do with crypto, but im worried. Ive heard of allot of ATM's using systems such as.. Windows. I saw a shut down screen from windows NT4 on a NatWest cash machine too. What happens if i withdraw money and after making the transaction with the bank, the ATM crashes without giving me my money?
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