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Monday, April 7, 2014

ATM’s At Risk


95% of the ATM’s in the U.S. run on Windows XP.

Tomorrow, April 8, Microsoft will no longer provide support for that operating system.

That means Microsoft will no longer issue security updates to patch holes in Windows XP, leaving those ATMs exposed to new kinds of cyberattacks.

If banks fail to upgrade their ATMs to a newer version of Windows, customers might be at risk. If hackers discover new flaws in Windows XP, those bugs will go unaddressed, leaving attackers free to exploit them.