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

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Sylvia Else wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
> > http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/14/news/bank-atm-heist-taiwan/index.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > That shouldn't be too hard.
> >
> >
> > It's like remotely opening
> > a dvd drive on someone else computer.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > A littler hacking and a little understanding of physics...
> >
> >
> > Richard Feynman can explain it...
> >
> 
> 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.


I'm pretty sure the FBI won't have any problem finding out...they just
give someone a million dollars to tell them how...anyone.


There is a 4 year old right now working on it with his smart phone...

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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
        Re: trick a network of bank ATMs into spitting out millions...without using a card Triscal Islington  <trust.your.technolust@mail.ru> - 2016-09-11 14:43 -0400

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