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On 29/03/14 22:32, Martijn Grooten wrote:
There was a BBC article the other day saying that banks were going to pay Microsoft $1m to continue support for their ATMs on Windows XP until they've migrated off it.On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 04:13:25PM +0000, Simon Avery wrote:What about ATMs and Embedded devices running XP? (One would hope the former would be isolated from the internet, but we all know that's not the only vector).At least some of them run Windows XP Embedded which is more secure, and which will continue to receive updates for some time. But according to someone who has been studying ATM malware (which is a pretty scary idea in itself) many run plain XP.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/19/are-the-worlds-atms-ready-for-april-xpiration/ Not the article I was loking for but broadly the same points. Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq