That’s true. However ATMs (and physical bank branches) have been focal points of attack for many, many years – this is just the latest generation of something that’s been going on for decades. Most large banks have monitoring and defences in place to detect attempts to steal money, and to deal with the aftermath.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, 5 May 2014 8:20 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Out of Band for IE, and they are going to provid e a XP patch Many do not use XP embedded. Sent from my Surface Pro From: Klaus Hartnegg<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 4, 2014 6:04 PM To: '[email protected]'<mailto:[email protected]> On 04.05.2014 22:59, C.E. Gene Connor wrote: > Among those still using Windows XP are the Defense Department, the IRS, > and bank ATMs ATMs should use XP-embedded, which is supported until January 2016. But as long as banks do not ensure physical safety of their devices (machines and cards), the OS version is less relevant. Thieves do not trick the ATM to access a manipulated web page. They usually access data from magnetic stripes, recently they sometimes connect an USB device to the PC inside an ATM machine. In both cases the correct countermeasures do not require upgrading the OS.
