Diebold Marries VMs with ATMs to Secure Banking Data 151
gManZboy writes "Automatic teller machine maker Diebold has taken a novel approach to protecting bank customer data: virtualization. Virtualized ATMs store all customer data on central servers, rather than the ATM itself, making it difficult for criminals to steal data from the machines. In places including Brazil, customer data has been at risk when thieves pulled or dynamited ATMs out of their settings and drove off with them. With threats increasing worldwide at many retail points of sale, such as supermarket checkout counters and service station gas pumps, Diebold needed to guarantee the security of customer data entered at the 50,000 ATMs that it manages. Diebold last year partnered with VMware to produce a zero-client ATM. No customer data is captured and stored on the ATM itself." Perhaps Diebold should take the same approach to vote-tabulating machines.
Obvious joke (Score:5, Funny)
According to Ohio Revised Code 3101.01(A) [ohio.gov], effective in 2004, marrying VMs and ATMs is illegal.
Re:Voting machines? (Score:5, Funny)
Have you seen the documentary where the guy finds out that the "secure database" where they collate votes is a simple Access file?
And so? Are you going to tell me that Access is insecure now?
Sheesh, you find these MS haters around every corner these days...