Saturday, July 11, 2009

ATM security, no not the network, the money machines

I think we all use those wonderful ATM machines to get cash from our bank accounts. Who would go to a teller if it is more convenient to just punch in our four digit PIN and get money. The biggest fear we have is that maybe someone is behind us stealing our PIN and ATM card or robbing us after we got the cash...seems like that a gentleman from Juniper had done some research on ATM security and found a way to actually get around the security measures. His talk was expected at Blackhad/Defcon in Las Vegas later this month. It seems that Juniper actually asked him to pull that presentation due to the high impact of what he has to say. We will keep you posted.

Read the full article at: http://www.scmagazineus.com/Juniper-pulls-researchers-Black-Hat-ATM-talk/article/139402/?DCMP=EMC-SCUS_Newswire

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