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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: FUBAR-BDHR on July 01, 2008, 11:33:44 pm

Title: Guess ATM manufactures didn't get the memo about MS software being unsecure
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on July 01, 2008, 11:33:44 pm

http://www.wtov9.com/money/16764057/detail.html

Looks like they use exploits in MS networking to steal not only millions but pin numbers to steal even more.  Oh why oh why would anyone trust MS for security?????

Title: Re: Guess ATM manufactures didn't get the memo about MS software being unsecure
Post by: Daeron on July 01, 2008, 11:45:30 pm

Scary thought that. Lately you hear so many stories of codes for security being cracked. Governments spend millions for one company to develop a waterproof encryption technique. And during that process they do everything possible not to let the competition know what they're doing. Which at the same time means that they generally only find out about weaknesses when it gets introduced on the market, because of the lack of testing by independent actors.

Open source is the future for such things and I hope governments and financial institutions are starting to realize that.

Title: Re: Guess ATM manufactures didn't get the memo about MS software being unsecure
Post by: karajorma on July 02, 2008, 01:46:40 am

Much as I hate MS I suspect this will turn out to be someone at Citibank ****ing up rather than an insecurity in the OS itself.