And this right here is why I carry my entire life savings in my shoe.
14-Year-Old Kids “Hack” Into ATM With Incredibly Clever Workaround
Crazy as it might sound, the “hack” didn’t require any advanced computer hacking at all.
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And this right here is why I carry my entire life savings in my shoe.
14-Year-Old Kids “Hack” Into ATM With Incredibly Clever Workaround
Crazy as it might sound, the “hack” didn’t require any advanced computer hacking at all.
“hack”
Yes. That’s why they put it in quotes like that. The article makes it clear that they didn’t have to do anything.
awesome. they didn’t steal anything. these kids have just super-sized their resumes.
Why do I think that in the US we would’ve sent them to gitmo instead of writing them a note for being late to school?
Harper’s Canada is trying hard to follow the US lead on that; in a couple years, he’d sic the RCMP on them.
Um. The “link” in that article about software skimming is just a search for the tag “atm”. I did not find a single article about software skimming. This article does not say anything about how users could be affected, if at all.
“Hack” doesn’t mean “use some super secret security wizardry”. It means “use something in a way it wasn’t meant to be used especially if using low-level or secret interfaces”. They hacked the ATM. Heck, famous computer hacker Kevin Mitnick’s best skill was being able to convince people to give him copies of documentation which wasn’t supposed to be publicly released.
In high school (1992) I accidentally discovered that a good 50% of the ATMs in my hometown accepted “0000” as your pin, regardless of what your actual pin was.
I reported that to my bank, and within a week it had been fixed… To “9999”