from experience (I was a security assessment professional and I have looked at multiple of these ATM machines in the past from a hackers point of view), these machines are almost always windows XP SP3 or the newer once are running windows 7. A number of usb devices are added like the pinpad, keyboard, printer, smartcard reader, cash dispenser, ... Next the entire thing is managed using XFS. (http://www.cen.eu/cen/Sectors/Sectors/ISSS/Activity/Pages/WS...) So even tho it might appear the researcher had a large amount of knowledge, this is not so uncommon.
That's also in the article, they left auto-play running.
I'd bet they use standard PC motherboards. The only unusual things the thiefs knew where where to open the hole, and how to use the cash dispenser (altough, I'm quite sure one'd be able to get the entire dispenser documentation from Google).
Knowing that they are Windows machines, why don't people attack the ATMs by the network?
I'm vaguely surprised they bothered to cut a hole to do this. When I was working on ATMs, none of my clients ever bothered to have they ATMs uniquely keyed. I had a keyring of about 30 keys that could open pretty much any ATM I came across.
Most ATMs are in running on Windows 7 with PC hardware. The hardware is probably custom made but still very similar to what you would find in a desktop.
As far the network, you cant access ATMs from the Internet at least in the US. Most of the providers have leased lines to a central server somewhere and then leased lines to whatever 3rd parties they talk to. US banks arent too crazy on letting people remotely service ATMs that are having software problems.
This is something I am looking for to experiment with. Where did you buy your IFC6410? I keep looking for a source of ARM based machines where I can play with Linux or Android...but in a different form factor than a phone (Something I could put on top of my rack), and a little more power than a Raspberry PI.
There's a small community forming around the board, so there's some degree of support available. But currently it's not comparable to what's available for the Raspberry PI, you still need decent linux skills to set it up. But that's half the fun anyways.
That is the sad part of this issue. Almost every politician votes across money lines with SOPA (Democrat and Republican). I am very impressed that Obama came out against it considering the $9.2 million the entertainment industry has given him:
If this is true, then what about the honey they produce? Wouldn't the honey have high levels of these toxic substances? Then in turn consumers would be getting a heavy dose of these chemicals. Scary stuff.
OpenSecrets:"The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families."
The first clause is in red and bold.
(Edit:I apologize to the reader(s) who felt that directly quoting the links cited by the parent comment was objectionable.)
Unfortunately many democrats live in areas where the Movie, recording industry is located...therefore they get lots of $$ from them. Thus the widespread support from both dems and republicans.
Exactly. Just imagine the cash flowing from the Movie/Music industry directly in their pockets. With that happening I don't see how it can be stopped. They will just keep trying.
I also think that instead of backing down from supporting legislature like SOPA in the future with all the backlash, they'll just stop supporting it publically.
Very depressing. Almost without any exception (I admit there are a couple) every single for or against can be determined by how much money they get from the computer industry(Against) or from the Music / Movie industry (For).
I'm having trouble reconciling this assertion with the fact that I can open the submission, sort by "online/internet" and it seems that those in the supporters column receive substantially larger amounts of money from "online/internet" than do those opposed.
I agree. TV/Movie money seems like a pretty good predictor of vote, but online/internet money much less so. But I'd still like to see an x-y plot with each congressperson a point, and TV/Movie money on one axis, online/internet money on the other, with each point colored by their vote. Then you could really see how separable the two populations are.
For one thing, these are donations in the 2010 cycle. Secondly, all of the top-receiving lawmakers in the "for" category are some of the most senior members of the Senate...and/or represent California, which will have high numbers of constituents from both entertainment and online industries.
Why is that depressing? If your company were going to make a political contribution, wouldn't you pick politicians whose record indicates they agree with your positions?
Yep. Totally agree with you. The same is with the new Gmail. Looks great on my Apple Cinema display...way too huge on most other computers. It has got to be that these designers are using huge displays with resolutions to match.
Same thing happens to programmers...work on a very fast machine, and never realize how slow something is on an average users computer.
Gmail has become nearly unusable on my 11" Macbook air. I wouldn't mind it so much if you could A) minimize the top bar or B) have it not scroll with the page. However, as far as I can tell, these aren't options.
I agree. The new gmail looks great on high-resolution, large screens. But on my laptop, it's terrible by default too much empty space; luckily they allow configuring the spacing.
Looks like they are windows based machines. Wonder if they left auto-play running on them?