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Re: trick a network of bank ATMs into spitting out millions...without using a card

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On 16/07/2016 6:02 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
> Taiwan is trying to figure out how hackers managed to trick a network of bank ATMs into spitting out millions...without using a card
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> http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/14/news/bank-atm-heist-taiwan/index.html
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> That shouldn't be too hard.
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> It's like remotely opening
> a dvd drive on someone else computer.
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> A littler hacking and a little understanding of physics...
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> Richard Feynman can explain it...
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Despite indications from various[*] US police procedural TV dramas, it's 
not actually possible to hack any arbitrary device.

The hackers used one or more mistakes made in the way the ATMs were 
constructed and programmed.

The problem is to figure out what the mistakes are, and how they were 
exploited.

Sylvia.

[*] Actually, all of them, I suspect.

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trick a network of bank ATMs into spitting out millions...without using a card The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-07-15 13:02 -0700
  Re: trick a network of bank ATMs into spitting out millions...without using a card Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-07-16 15:36 +1000
    Re: trick a network of bank ATMs into spitting out millions...without  using a card The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-07-16 12:45 -0700
      Re: trick a network of bank ATMs into spitting out millions...without using a card Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-07-17 13:40 +1000

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