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Googling for ATM Master Passwords
default DOLLAR writes to mention an eWeek article following up on the ATM reprogramming scam pulled in Virginia Beach last week. A security researcher in New York has used a YouTube video, a few Google searches, and other legal methods to discover the master passwords to thousands of ATMs across the country. From the article: "Dave Goldsmith, founder and president of penetration testing outfit Matasano Security, in New York, did not say how he obtained the operator manual--which contains master passwords and other sensitive security information about the cash-dispensing machines--but an eWEEK investigation shows that a simple Google query will return a 102-page PDF file that provides a road map to the hack."
*runs off to Google and YouTube as fast as his little fingers will take him*
12345
Oh wait. That's my ATM PIN.
We've finally found that mysterious step 2!
Phhhtttt!!!
That's to all of you who made fun of us geeks!
*Rude Hand Gesture*
That's for every bully who ever shoved someone into a locker during PE.
Due to our superior ability to manipulate poorly secured cash dispensing devices, we shall now rule the world!
First the treasury...then the military. World domination cannot be far behind.
2 cents,
QueenB
HDGary secures my bank
The machine gave $20's for $5's for NINE days after it was reprogrammed before someone commented on it. God Bless America.
I thought it was up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start ...
What a strange bird is the pelican, his beak can hold more than his belly can.
Please enter a multiple of $5 or $20.
Did you say "insightful" or "inciteful"?
You know, I assumed that you were joking about the password, I was thinking there is no way the default password could be 0012345....then low and behold, right there in the doc, there it is....
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I'm sure big Tony will be along shortly to remove your kneecaps...
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
The master code that would open the keyboxes and get you keys to anywhere in the casino was 654321. And people told each other all their passwords and such all the time.
And that is how it all happened.
music lover since 1969
Don't you mean, "With great power comes great repostability"?
Which one gets fixed first!
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Collect $200. Pass Go!
Yes, I'll get right to that right after we get you the software that will let you uplink to NORAD.
"Let's face it, it's a good story. Accuracy would kill it."
"But our government insists that organized crime doesn't exist, while at the same time having a division to track organized crime! I'm so confused!"
Well it is BECAUSE they have a division to track organized crime that it doesn't exist, just like how since there is a war on drugs, drug use is virtually non-existant anymore...
Remember when you could go to a concert and see people smoking pot? Or you could find it in high schools, or any night club? Now it's almost impossible to find and if you did (besides being a criminal) it would cost in the thousands of dollars for just a gram of the stuff.
Ah, the old days, the WOD eliminated that scourge once and for all... God bless America.
That may work for the Irish, but what if you're Russian?
..."I find computers unlocked with badges in the computer and with the user no where around."...and you fail to set goatse as their default wallpaper, screensaver and window theme manager??
> Whoever makes these ATMs deserves all the bad publicity that they get.
Might it be Diebold, by any chance?
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