Saturday, January 18, 2014
ATM security alert as Microsoft prepares to kill off Windows XP
Cashpoints around the world could be left vulnerable to hacker attacks.
It is believed millions are still running Microsoft's Windows XP, first introduced 13 years ago.
However, on April 8th, Microsoft will stop issuing securoty updates, in a bid to get people to upgrade.
Bill Gates at the Microsoft XP launch in New York October 25, 2001: The firm will finally stop supporting the software on April 8th.
THE CASHPOINT OF THE FUTURE
Cumbersome and slow cash machines with clunky buttons and tiny hard-to-see screens could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a range of next-generation ATMs.
Ohio-based security firm Diebold has created a touchscreen cash machine that works like a tablet computer, uses facial recognition and QR codes to identify and authenticate users, and has built-in safety cameras.
German-based engineers at Wincor Nixdorf have developed a machine that remembers the user's withdrawal history to offer more personalised options.
The aging OS, which was replaced by Windows Vista in 2007, Windows 7 in 2009, Windows 8 in 2012 and Windows 8.1 in 2013.
Experts say many of the ATMs may have to be dumped, and that 95% of ATMs in use runs windows XP.
'My bank operates an ATM that looks like it must be 20 years old, and there’s no way that it can support Windows 7,' Suzanne Cluckey, the editor of ATM Marketplace, a news site that serves the industry, told Bloomberg.
'A lot of ATMs will have to either have their components upgraded or be discarded altogether and sold into the aftermarket—or just junked.'
although more modern ATMs are unaffected, there are fears older version could be left vulnerable
Experts say that as little as 15% of ATMs run on Windows 7, and warn the industry faces major problems.
Aravinda Korala, chief executive officer of ATM software provider KAL, says he expects only 15 percent of bank ATMs in the U.S. to be on Windows 7 by the April deadline.
'The ATM world is not really ready, and that’s not unusual,' he says.
'ATMs move more slowly than PCs.'
POISON IN PIZZA HUT CHEESE
Leprino Foods, the world's largest Italian cheese manufacturer, is the nearly exclusive supplier of Pizza Cheese to the 6000+ Pizza Hut restaurants in the U.S. To make money, Leprino Foods uses patented processes that add GMO food starch, plus large volumes of water and salt to so-called Pizza Cheese.
It gets much worse. Leprino Foods sprays Polydimethylsiloxane onto the "cheese". According to the original source for this information, this poison has not been approved as a food ingredient by the FDA. However, another site lists this as a food ingredient. Yet I do not recall reading this in the list of ingredients of anything from the supermarket. I believe that they add a whole lot of extra toxins in restaurant food that we never see, since they don't have to list the ingredients.
The levels are 90 X higher residue concentration than the FDA allows for use as a boiler water antifoaming agent!
Polydimethylsiloxane breaks down into formaldehyde when subjected to heat in excess of 150ºC. There is no safe level of formaldehyde.
In addition, as I tell people in "You're not fat, You're Toxic", you have the addition of glyphosate, the poison that is in Roundup, which comes from GMO plants fed to dairy cows (GMO corn, soy and alfalfa). That ends up in what little real cheese is in the cheese, as well as the meat.
Corporations don't care about you. Only you can care about you. Read the 55 easy-to-understand chapters in You're not fat, You're Toxic and save your looks, your health and your life.
Source: relfe.com