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Re:Cash machines robbed with infected USB sticks by peterwwillis on Monday December 30, 2013 @11:16AM (#6985158)
For what it's worth, there's a fair number of Windows-based ATMs in the US and around the globe. You can find articles as old as 2003 about exploiting Windows-based ATMs. My favorite was the machine that had a Paint program enabled by an intrepid hacker. Every year without fail the ATMs of the hotels surrounding DEFCON get owned multiple times, sometimes advertising it. ("Dumb" ATMs are often much easier to attack using default passwords, but harder to install malware on)

https://www.informationweek.com/mobile/banks-struggle-to-get...

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/25/windows-based-atm-machine...

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Re:Cash machines robbed with infected USB sticks by mmicn on Monday December 30, 2013 @11:25AM (#6985201)
Depends on what you mean by "harder to install malware on". Most of these machines are regular Windows, and inherit the default risk associated with such machines. The only difference is that some might have better hardening.
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Re:Cash machines robbed with infected USB sticks by BuildTheRobots on Monday December 30, 2013 @11:46AM (#6985315)
> Most of these machines are regular Windows

What's "Regular" Windows" when it's at home? The couple of ATMs I managed to see the inside of were either running WinCE or OS/2.

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Re:Cash machines robbed with infected USB sticks by mmicn on Monday December 30, 2013 @11:49AM (#6985345)
The windows CE and OS/2 are getting rare. those I have tested all had win XP and win 7. (I have tested nearly every major financial institution in my country)
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Re:Cash machines robbed with infected USB sticks by thrownaway2424 on Monday December 30, 2013 @12:47PM (#6985733)
Whenever I come across a green-screen ATM running decent old software I practically leap for joy. Why? I can get my money in 5 seconds. The new ones, that I guess are running Flash on top of MSIE on top of WinXP, are unbelievably slow.
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Re:Cash machines robbed with infected USB sticks by chiph on Monday December 30, 2013 @08:27PM (#6988343)
My favorite are the ones where the developer got the resolution of the screen wrong, and both the horizontal & vertical scrollbars are present. The touch screen is emulating a mouse, so you can drag the bars a little ways.
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Re:Cash machines robbed with infected USB sticks by peterwwillis on Monday December 30, 2013 @12:38PM (#6985662)
Read the first link I posted.
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