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Researcher Discovers ATM Hack, Gets Silenced
Al writes "A researcher working for networking company Juniper has been forced to cancel a Black Hat presentation that would have revealed a way to hack into ATMs. The presentation focused on exploiting vulnerabilities in devices running the Windows CE operating system, including some ATMs. The decision to cancel was made to give the vendor concerned time to patch the problem, although the company was notified 8 months ago. The article mentions a growing trend in ATM hacking: In November 2008 thieves stole nearly $9 million from more than 130 cash machines in 49 cities worldwide. And earlier this year, the second biggest maker of ATMs, Diebold, warned customers in an advisory that certain cash machines in Eastern Europe had been loaded with malicious software capable of stealing financial information and the secret PINs from customers performing ATM transactions."
Is why everyone cares so much about Money. It's just pieces of paper and little bits of metal. What really matters is Love! If people stopped worrying about money then maybe there wouldn't be so much poverty and swine flues. Also, I read that Linuxes are free, so, again, we don't need money anymore, since our computers are free! Look at the big picture, people.
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I think you're supposed to say Geldautomat. Unfortunately, the last time I used one, it gave me stupid paper. Not gold :(