Friday, October 29, 2010

Researcher Forces Cash Out of Automated Teller Machines


Security researcher Barnaby Jack gave his long overdue presentation on ATM exploits in front of an audience at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. The hacker managed to force two different ATM models to dispense cash using both remote and local attacks.

Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) are pretty much ubiquitous these days and most people are used to trusting them. Unfortunately, the sad reality is that these machines are far from safe and the rate of ATM crime is on a steep climb.

Attacks like ATM skimming have been around for a long time and several variants of ATM malware have also appeared in the past two years. However, Barnaby Jack's research, which involve remotely exploitable vulnerabilities, takes ATM security risks to a whole new level.

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