ATM Hack Gives Cash On Demand

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @11:57PM from the one-card-bandit dept.

angry tapir writes "Windows CE-based ATMs can easily be made to dole out cash, according to security researcher Barnaby Jack. Exploiting bugs in two different ATMs at Black Hat, the researcher from IOActive was able to get them to spit out money on demand and record sensitive data from the cards of people who used them. Jack believes a large number of ATMs have remote management tools that can be accessed over a telephone. After experimenting with two machines he purchased, Jack developed a way of bypassing the remote authentication system and installing a homemade rootkit, named Scrooge."

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MSFT Fanboys HURRY! by newdsfornerds · 2010-07-29 00:07 · Score: -1, Troll

Hurry up and bring us a long list of reasons why it's NOT Microsoft's fault!

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WTF is an 'ATM machine'? by Noose+For+A+Neck · 2010-07-29 00:34 · Score: -1, Troll

Ass-to-mouth machine? Why would it have cash? Do people pay for that??

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