Diebold ATM's hit with worm.

[alfredo]

Why does Diebold insist on using such insecure products in its ATM's and voting machines? Either they are stupid or they don't care about security.

It appears they knew about this for some time, but failed to act.

Here is the link.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/34175.html

Remember how diebold insisted their voting machines were not connected to the internet? I wonder how many other security holes are still in the Diebold ATM's?

"Though ATMs typically sit on private networks or VPNs, the most serious worms in the last year have demonstrated that supposedly-isolated networks often have undocumented connections to the Internet, or can fall to a piece of malicious code inadvertently carried beyond the firewall on a laptop computer."

[lysergik]

1. They obviously don't care about security

It's too expensive they say.. then live with the bad press you idiots.

Liebold has time and time again said their products are secure and I'm sure they will say there is nothing wrong with their ATM's. Whatever, you've now proven to me, without a doubt, that you have no regard for the security of the information which you are entrusted to handle even as a medium.

Go back to making safes and get the hell out of the electronics business.

[realFedUp]

2. Bank of America uses Diebold and they suck

It's like filling out a survey every time
you use the ATM.

a snip from the article:
A patch for the critical RPC DCOM hole had been available from Microsoft for over a month at the time of the attack, but Diebold had neglected to install it in the infected machines. Billett defended the company's patching process, which he said involves testing each new bug fix, and deploying at a wide variety of institutions with a mix of network architectures. "A lot of those machines actually have to be visited by a service technician" to be patched, said Billett. "Our experience in the past is we are able to turn those around in one or two days."

In this case, the two affected financial institutions, which Diebold declined to name, somehow slipped thought the cracks, said Billett. The company would not say how many machines were knocked out by the worm.
continued.

Shall we call BofA and ask them what's what on
this one?
http://www.bankofamerica.com/deposits/checksave/index.cfm?template=contact_us#card_phone

[CheshireCat]

3. kick

:kick:

This is important info that can help us in the fight against the Diebold voting machines.

[alfredo]

5. I am calling my bank today to see what they use.

I am also sending that article and some BBV links to our state government.

[Loonman]

4. Diebold.....

They rig your elections and screw up your money.

[alfredo]

6. but only I can screw up my check book. N/T