And how fast would those ATM manufacturers switch to a Linux or other offering if, say, Bank of America said "We won't buy an ATM with an easily skimmable reader or with an insecure OS on it?"
Diebold, for example, has a market cap of less than $3B. BoA is sitting around $182B. With that much leverage, the big banks have NO excuse to just accept whatever crap the vendors shovel out the door. -- Josh On 4/2/14, 4:01 PM, "Stefan Weimar" <ste...@meinhop3.de> wrote: >Hi, > >Am 02. April schrieb raccoon: > >> This goes for all banks and is probably one of the reasons most ATMs >> still run windows and are skimmable time after time by the simplest >> exploits. > >That's not quite right. The manufacturer of the ATM chooses the OS. > >When you -- as a bank -- buy an ATM you get a preinstalled device with >an underlying OS (Windows mostly) and a software stack consisting of >drivers for the card reader, dispenser, keyboard an so on. On top of >that you install your own application so the ATM will work with the >software running in your datacenter. > >Yours sincerely >Stefan >-- >make -it ./work > >GnuPG-Key: 742ADF27 <ste...@meinhop3.de> >Fingerprint: 037F 17FC CF4B C1E0 598D 97B1 C2CE 7963 742A DF27 _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
