Card-Sniffing Malware On Diebold ATMs 143
angry tapir writes "Diebold has released a security fix for its Opteva automated teller machines after cyber-criminals apparently broke into the systems at one or more businesses in Russia and installed malicious software. Diebold learned of the incident in January and sent out a global security update to its ATM customers using the Windows operating system. It is not releasing full details of what happened, including which businesses were affected, but said criminals had gained physical access to the machines to install their malicious program. Arrests have reportedly been made."
Re:Maybe there could be gov. regulation of ATM des (Score:3, Informative)
Ages ago in the past, OS/2 was the ATM platform of choice. Now, its either Windows 2000 Pro, or XP Embedded.
As for Windows 98, I can see that being used, but the ATM would require a watchdog card. This is a special hardware card that automatically resets the machine should the watchdog driver not send pulses after a certain period of time, or if a certain application is not present and running. This case, Windows 98 can be used, because if the ATM's app crashes, the card will reset the machine to a hopefully known good state.