in-line :- On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 15:12, narendra sisodiya <[email protected]> wrote: > Summary: Windows Trojan still empties people’s bank accounts > > NOW that Microsoft gets close to the banking sector (with very limited > success), one ought to understand the effect of Windows on banks. From > yesterday’s news: > A sophisticated Trojan horse program designed to empty bank > accounts has a new trick up its sleeve: It lies to investigators about > where the money is going. > First uncovered by Finjan Software last week, the URLzone Trojan > is already known to be very advanced. It rewrites bank pages so that > the victims don’t know that their accounts have been emptied, and it > also has a sophisticated command-and-control interface that lets the > bad guys pre-set what percentage of the account balance they want to > clear out. > > read full story at -- http://boycottnovell.com/2009/10/07/windows-trojan-bank/
There have been quite few stories about ATM's and windows and insecurity in past as well. They just need to be documented more properly. > ---------------------------------- > Related Blogs to be read > * http://geek2live.blogspot.com/2009/08/windows-fails-with-atm-machine.html > * > http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/hackers_targeting_windows_xpbased_atm_machines > I know about these but as said before, there are many more. > Some more Info > ----------------------- > * Linux is also finding some reception in the ATM marketplace. An > example of this is Banrisul, the largest bank in the south of Brazil, > which has replaced the MS-DOS operating systems in its ATMs with > Linux. Banco do Brasil is also migrating ATMs to Linux. source : > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_teller_machine > * Last year when i visited Karachi, I talked about Linux+Gtk-based > ATM machines being actually deployed and used in my blog. Plenty of > people asked me for any pictures but I didn't have any at that time. > No worries, here you go: source > http://zee-nix.blogspot.com/2008/03/linuxgtk-based-atm.html I checked out the blog post and saw the pics. From the pics. one cannot say whether it has GNU/Linux or MS Windows or Solaris or whatever . <snipped> > My idea is the design a penguin Safety Logo "Penguin with text says > Penguin Safety Inside" and we should paste to those ATM which has > GNU/Linux OS over it. May be similar thought to guide user to choose > the proper ATM. Good idea :) > -- > ┌─────────────────────────┐ > │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) > │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org > │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a > └─────────────────────────┘ <snipped> -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
