18 Mar 2009
Card-Sniffing Malware On Diebold ATMs

Why in the world would anyone use Windows as the OS for an ATM? What were they thinking?

Diebold has released a security fix for its Opteva automated teller machines after cyber-criminals apparently broke into the systems at one or more businesses in Russia and installed malicious software. Diebold learned of the incident in January and sent out a global security update to its ATM customers using the Windows operating system. It is not releasing full details of what happened, including which businesses were affected, but said criminals had gained physical access to the machines to install their malicious program. Arrests have reportedly been made.

(link) [Slashdot]

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