Posts Tagged ‘Fraud’
ATM fraud cases raise questions over electronic security
Source: The Jordan Times
By Mohammad Ghazal
AMMAN – Police have urged the public to be cautious when using automated teller machines (ATMs), after 12 foreigners were arrested this week for committing ATM fraud.
The thieves, who are believed to have been operating in the country for about two weeks, installed card skimmers and small cameras on ATMs around Amman, using these devices to collect customers’ bank card information and withdraw money from their accounts. No figures were available on the amount of stolen money.
The 12 are believed to be part of a network of ATM thieves working in several countries in the region, said Public Security Department Spokesperson Major Mohammad Khatib. Read the rest of this entry »
Should critical security problems concerning ATMs be discussed on the net?
What do you think about? Example: Forbidden Juniper presentation
Check the link to read the blog post at Juniper.
An employee of Juniper obviously discovered a security leek in the network structure used by Automated Teller Machines. This problem seems to concern one ATM manufacturer directly – the name was not mentioned. The employee of Juniper has prepared a presentation for the Blackhat USA 2009 conference to show more details about this issue. The vendor has forbidden to show the presentation. Juniper says that not only this vendor is concerned, the problem could touch any ATM.
Do you think the decision to forbid Juniper to show the presentation was a good one?
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