The attack takes advantage of a weakness in the cryptographic model used by many HSMs to encrypt, store and retrieve PINs. The system, used by some older ATMs, reads the customers account number ...

But not all of them are encrypted. "Tested ATMs frequently featured poor firewall protection and insufficient protection for data transmitted between the ATM and processing center," the report noted.

The vulnerabilities, which the company says have all been patched, could be exploited by attackers to bypass an unpatched ATM's hard drive encryption and take full control of the machine.

But weak encryption and a lack of authentication between components leaves ATMs particularly vulnerable to physical attacks---access to any part of the insecure machine Kaspersky describes means ...

Six critical vulnerabilities were discovered in the widely-used Vynamic Security Suite (VSS) ATM software, potentially allowing attackers to bypass encryption and dispense cash. While patches have ...

The reason? Most ATM transaction data is not encrypted and can be more easily compromised when it is traversing an IP network compared with dedicated lines, according to a white paper (download ...

It can be tricky, but see if you can tell if the ATM is equipped with high-level encryption software to protect against WiFi scanners and hacking attempts by criminal hackers. If an ATM appears to ...

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Every time you make a mobile phone call, buy something with a credit card in a shop or on the web, or even get cash from an ATM, encryption bestows upon that transaction the confidentiality and ...

He instructed Plaintiff to take the cash to an Athena ATM ‘to be sure it would be encrypted.’ ” The scammer sent a QR code, which Reynolds did not know was attached to the scammer’s ...