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Windows ATMs by 2005

Posted by michael on from the blue-screen-of-no-money dept.

An anonymous reader writes "O'Reilly Developer News is running a brief on how the banking industry will be running a stripped down version of windows on 65% of its ATM machines by 2005. On a morning when I'm receiving the latest windows virus in my inbox every five minutes I feel very comfortable with this."

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  1. Re:Three Major Vulnerabilities by b-baggins · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And in other news, Microsoft announced today a security vulnerability in their Embedded XP used in ATM machines. Apparently, a certain sequence of information on the magnetic stripe used on ATM cards can cause a buffer overflow and allow the user to fool the machine into thinking their bank account has an unlimited balance. Additionally, it also disables the $200 per day withdrawl limit.

    Microsoft representatives rated this as a serious security risk, and said that ATM machines using their embedded XP operating system would be upgraded over the next several months as ATM technicians became available to open each affected ATM and swap out the hard drive.

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