__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Saturday 18 November 2006 18:40 \__
> "hackers ..planted a backdoor virus program on the Website of China
> Unionpay, the country's only national electronic payment network
> operator, that may result in customer information being leaked"
>
> "The backdoor program, Backdoor.BlackHole.2005.a, is capable of
> hijacking customer's computers when they visit the Website"
>
> http://english.people.com.cn/200611/18/eng20061118_322836.html
>
> Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 18-Nov-2006
>
> Red-Hat/Linux Apache/1.3.19 28-May-2002
>
> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.chinaunionpay.com
>
> excuses fuddie ..
I'll add relevant links because they speak louder than opinions and
reflections.
Why not Embedded? ATM's Running XP Professional...
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| This time, I happened to be there when it suddenly BSOD'd and began a
| reboot cycle. Obviously, to BSOD it needs to run Windows, and moments
| later, that was confirmed. But that's not the story here -- believe it or
| not, most ATMs run Windows nowadays, and there's absoloutely nothing
| wrong with that.
|
| [...]
|
| There's a million reasons why an ATM should must be RTOS, be it Linux or
| VxWorks or Windows CE, but even if you don't go with RTOS, Windows XP
| Professional most certainly isn't the answer. Especially if it's not even
| SP2.
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http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/287
ATMs hacked using MP3 player
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| A criminal gang in the U.K. was able to steal confidential banking
| data by bugging ATMs with an MP3 player, The Times of London
| reported in its online edition Thursday.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6135905.html
Microsoft takes it to the bank
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| Is the world ready for Microsoft Banking? Banks are traditionally
| very conservative with their software and hardware choices, and
| most still rely on expensive mainframes with multiple levels of
| failure protection. However, banks are also making a huge push
| to expand into other services, such as investment planning, and
| all these new services require new software. If they are
| successful, Microsoft will be laughing all the way to the, er, bank.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/11/14/5956
Does Issuing Passports Make Microsoft a Country?
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| ...One day, Expedia could start offering higher fares to customers
| who have more than a million dollars in their Investor stock
| portfolio. There's not really anything technically impossible about
| this, and it's probably legal, too...
|
| ...The scary thing is that if you use Internet Explorer, Microsoft
| controls your web browser...
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http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000047.html
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http://iuron.com - proposing a non-profit search engine
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