[Year 12 IT Apps] Cybercrime - dumb crooks and dumber security

[Mark KELLY]

A North Carolina grocery worker is being held without bail in Houston on
attempted computer hacking charges after inadvertently partnering with an
undercover FBI agent in an alleged citywide ATM-reprogramming caper.

Read More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/thor/#ixzz0n08UepYr

Cash-machine–reprogramming scams were first noticed in the financial
industry in 2005, and surfaced publicly in 2006 when a cyber thief was
caught on video looting an ATM at a Virginia gas station. Threat Level later
confirmed that default administrative passcodes for retail ATMs manufactured
by Tranax and Triton were printed in owner’s manuals easily found online.

-- 
Mark Kelly
Manager - Information Systems
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
Direct line / Voicemail: 8520 9085
School Phone +613 8520 9000
School Fax +613 9578 9253
kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au

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