Windows to Power ATM's in 2005

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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On 22 Sep 2003 16:08:36 -0400
Seth Gordon <sethg at ropine.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 14:28, Timothy M. Lyons wrote:
> > 
> > As to hacking ATM's being a moot point, all I can say is with
> > patience, dedication, motivation, and resources, _any_ network or
> > device can be hacked. It's just a matter of finding the chink in the
> > armor.
> 
> A few creative thieves have put up kiosks in shopping malls that look
> like ATMs; the machines read off the mag-strips of whatever cards are
> swiped through, take the PINs, and then tell the customer "service
> temporarily unavailable" or whatever.  The thieves used this
> information to duplicate the cards and use them to withdraw money from
> real ATMs.
> 
> Some ATMs have also been broken into with brute force -- by using a
> truck and a trailer hitch to pry off the front of the machine and then
> take the cash inside.
> 
> With high-quality color scanners and ink-jet printers, forging
> cashiers' checks is a booming and lucrative business.
> 
> Compared with all these techniques, what kind of
> return-on-criminal-investment can you get by attempting to hack an
> ATM?
> 
And related to this some very sophisticated thieves use real ATMs and
attach their hardware. Unsuspecting people swipe their cards and enter
their pin numbers not knowing that the thieves are recording it. 


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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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