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Scammer Plants a Fake ATM At Defcon 17
Groo Wanderer writes "Normally, a well-crafted fake ATM would skim a lot of card information before it was noticed, if it was ever noticed at all. Because it is safer for the criminals and harder to prosecute, financial crimes like this are spreading fast. If you are smart, you don't try to pull one off in the middle of a computer security convention where the attendees are very good at spotting such scams. That said, some not-so-bright criminal tried to plant a fake ATM at Defcon. He now has one less fake ATM and a whole lot of investigators on his tail."
I know we've been pulling out of Iraq, but going down to Defcon 17 just seems ridiculous.
Article contains the terms "ATM Machine" and "PIN Number". Read at your own risk.
They make it sound like this was done by criminals. Who's to say it wasn't really a job offer in disguise? ;) "First person here to notice this gets a job offer."
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I think the real fail was the cops hauling the machine away without asking for help from the Defcon attendees. Sort of like a guy having a heart attack at a cardiologists convention and the cops keeping everybody back until an ambulance can arrive and take him to a hospital.
I think the real fail was the cops hauling the machine away without asking for help from the Defcon attendees.
The true FAIL was the Defcon attendees failing to spot and realize that the cops hauling the machines away were fake, and the ATM was real.
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Been watching Oceans Eleven have we?
So you think of it more like finding a bomb at an explosives convention. Fair enough -- the cops were probably worried about some guy in the back yelling whatever the ATM equivalent of, "Cut the BLUE wire!" is. ;)
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They could have covertly had an undercover agent place an "out of order" sign on it;
Really, I'd replace the computer inside the ATM with a Ninja.
An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"
My fave was the Yank pronounciation of 'solder' ("sodder"). To this Brit, it sounded like a cross between sodomize and bugger (which mean the same thing). I always cracked up when people asked if I could "sodder" a circuit board for them.
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