Barnaby Jack, who was forbidden to show their findings last year, under pressure from manufacturers, promises to reveal them at the Black Hat conference
A year after being prohibited from making a presentation at the Black Hat security conference on security of ATMs (better known in Brazil as boxes electronics ), the expert Barnaby Jack is finally talking about it in this year's event.
And you'll have more news. He promises to perform at the event, taking place on 28th and July 29th in Las Vegas (USA) a new rootkit (a tool that aims to camouflage and to ensure the action of harmful programs) platform for ATMs.
Jack, who now serves as a kind of "good hacker" to show how to attack several ATMs, even remotely, via the network. That is, it is not necessary to check that the criminal site equipment to break the system. The specialist will also address what the banking industry needs to do to protect their equipment this attack.
Jack was forbidden to expose this information last year for his "boss" at the time, Juniper Networks, which forced the expert to draw the theme of his agenda, because of complaints received by manufacturers of ATMs.
The industry of this sector feared that the disclosures were used incorrectly. To avoid this "censorship", Jack switched jobs last month. Now he is director of research in the area of security company IOActive.
Currently, ATMs can now be "hacked", but in a different way than is done on the Internet. The bandits often install devices that capture data from the card. And using a hidden camera, steal user passwords. Thus, cloning the card and draw money from accounts.
According to the specialist, last year he would address only one type of ATM. For this year, want to talk about at least three models from major manufacturers.
