[Year 12 IT Apps] Data security

[Mark]

It looks like you're hacking this ATM or kiosk.
Would you like help?

(  ) Get help with hacking this device.
(  ) Just hack the device without help.
[  ] Don't show me this tip again.




On 17 April 2015 at 14:49, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:

> During 2008, I briefly amused myself with a price-checking terminal in a
> popular department store in the States whilst my wife was happily buying
> jeans that were on sale. Lacking a smart phone, I poked around the various
> menu option, the application halted and suddenly crashed. I suddenly found
> myself in a security hole where I could drop to a file explorer window. To
> my surprise, the device was running WIndows-Lite, a similarly primative OS.
> I could walk up and down the entire file tree, looking at the folder names.
> I could not see the contents but did have the odd privilege of making
> folders. From memory, I created a root level folder called “Please Secure
> Me”, took some souvenir photographs and departed when I was handed an
> armful of freshly purchased jeans.
>
> I was trying to remember a remark that Harry Harrison once made about
> Stainless Steel Rats that live in technologically advanced civilisations.
>
> —
>
> *Roland GESTHUIZEN*http://about.me/rgesthuizen
>
> On 17 Apr 2015, at 12:42 pm, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
>
> Found in my travels. This is from 2014, which makes the story even more
> chilling in 2015.
>
>
>
> *Banks everywhere are in a race against time to upgrade their ATMs before
> they become hot targets for hackers.An estimated 95% of American bank ATMs
> run on Windows XP, and Microsoft is killing off tech support for that
> operating system on April 8 [2014]. That means Microsoft (MSFT) will no
> longer issue security updates to patch holes in Windows XP, leaving those
> ATMs exposed to new kinds of cyberattacks.*
>
> http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/04/technology/security/atm-windows-xp/
>
> --
>
> >> Witty sig goes HERE <<
>
> Mark Kelly
> mark AT vceit DOT com
> http://vceit.com
>
>
>
>
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Mark Kelly
mark AT vceit DOT com
http://vceit.com
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