Hackers study vulnerabilities as ATMs spit cash

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCATRE66S02Y20100729

"A security expert showed off techniques for breaking into ATMs, causing machines to spit out cash to a cheering crowd 
at an annual gathering of hackers.

"I hope to change the way people look at devices that from the outside are seemingly impenetrable," Barnaby Jack, 
director of research at security consulting firm IOActive Labs,
told a standing-room-only crowd before launching the demonstration using equipment he purchased over the Internet.

He spent over a year learning to break into stand-alone automated teller machines found at gas stations, bars and 
retail establishments.

At the annual Black Hat conference, Jack showed how he could upload his home-brewed piece of software dubbed Dillinger 
-- named after the infamous bank robber --
to an ATM made by privately held Tranax Technologies.
After he infected the ATM, he approached the machine and instructed it to start dispensing cash."
 
Juha-Matti
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