End of Windows XP support puts 95% of world's ATMs at risk

Re:End of Windows XP support puts 95% of world's ATMs at risk by mschuster91 on Thursday March 20, 2014 @10:55AM (#7435870)

If you're doing stuff The Right Way, you don't wire them up to the public internet, but instead put a VPN router/gateway between ATM and internet uplink to keep out fucktards messing with the internet uplink.

This way, you could run Win98 SE on the ATMs and need not worry about hackers (if your networks are properly firewalled, at least!).

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Re:End of Windows XP support puts 95% of world's ATMs at risk by midas007 on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:15AM (#7436004)

I talked to a Diebold tech when I was Davis. The stuff they do and the customer network setups will make the hair on the back of your neck leap off, run and hide.

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Re:End of Windows XP support puts 95% of world's ATMs at risk by midas007 on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:12AM (#7435986)

I resigned in protest an FTE job at Stanford because this was the exact scenario that was proposed (s/ATM/cash registers, swipe terminals/g). From VPN on a private network to a proposal to internet IPs. No f-ing way.

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Re:End of Windows XP support puts 95% of world's ATMs at risk by scuba7183 on Thursday March 20, 2014 @12:29PM (#7436589)

Wait, they were going to give POS terminals public IPs?

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Re:End of Windows XP support puts 95% of world's ATMs at risk by mschuster91 on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:27AM (#7436102)

Target hack, I can smell you from here!

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