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Fake ATM doesn't last long at hacker meet

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136179

IDG News Service - Criminals running an ATM card-skimming scam made a big mistake this week: They tried to hit the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas.

As the conference was kicking off a few days ago, attendees noticed that at ATM placed in the Riviera Hotel, which plays host to the annual event, didn't quite look right, according to a senior conference organizer who identified himself only as Priest. "They looked at the screen where there would normally be a camera," he said. "It was a little bit too dark, so someone shined a flashlight in there and there was a PC." [more]

Hehe idiots picked the wrong people to me$$ with!!

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But cashpoints ARE a PC anyway.... the one heres run XP Embedded...

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This article has been dead for over three months

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