‘Death’ of Windows XP could leave 95% of world’s ATMs vulnerable
I spent 4 years working at a bank here in the mid 90's. One project was converting ATM's.
Now admittedly that was a good 10 years before XP was released but the idea of using Windows on what was nothing more than a data terminal would never have crossed our minds.
Even then, there were free, better alternatives available.
I was surprised to find that they now run Windows.
Thanks for the history reminiscing Hazel and for blowing my little mind.
I'm shocked they run them via Windows. I would've thought they used something way more secure like Linux, or have their own proprietary OS.
Windows on chip runs many many things. I wonder if this why my back switched their ATM interface recently to a HTML/Java based one
switched their ATM interface recently to a HTML/Java based one
Script kiddies will love playing with the Java to get withdrawals.
I saw another article that said most atms that run windows use windows embedded which is a different os. The version of that based on xp is still going to be supported for another year or so.