![]() These updates were pushed to ATMs which had been under support from the companies, not every ATM had been updated, hence, a large number of the machines remain vulnerable. On the good note, he had been an Ethical hacker and hence had brought up vulnerabilties to the notice of both ATM companies and was fixed an year ago. Jack seems to be so confident about his technique that he said, “Every ATM I’ve looked at, I’ve found a game-over vulnerability that allows an attacker to get cash from the machine”. His study yielded success in within few years, during which he discoverred Vulnerabilities that had let him gain complete access to those machines. Initially, in order to kick start hacking, Jack said that he had bought a pair of standalone ATMs–one from Tranax Technologies (yea, its not Taranfx) and the other by Triton. ![]() He demonstrated a hack that allows the hacker to connect to the ATM through a telephone modem and, without knowing a password, instantly force it to bankrupt the ATM machine. “I hope to change the way people look at devices that from the outside are seemingly impenetrable,” said Jack. ![]()
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