His Black Hat 2009 presentation on hacking ATMs was pulled at the last minute, but security researcher Barnaby Jack is back this year, promising to hack an unaltered, garden-variety ATM to make it dispense all of its cash."I've always liked the scene in Terminator 2 where John Connor walks up to an ATM, interfaces his Atari to the card reader and retrieves cash from the machine. I think I've got that kid beat," said Jack in his presentation overview for Black Hat 2010. The conference, presented by TechWeb, runs July 24th - July 29th in Las Vegas.
Jack's presentation last year, "Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines," was canceled at the last minute, reportedly due to the affected ATM manufacturer pressuring his then employer, Juniper Networks. In a statement released at the time, Juniper said that "to publicly disclose the research findings before the affected vendor could properly mitigate the exposure would have potentially placed their customers at risk. That is something we don't want to see happen."
This year, Jack no longer works for Juniper, but has become director of security research for IOActive. "The upside to this is that there has been an additional year to research ATM attacks, and I'm armed with a whole new bag of tricks," he said.
Jack's presentation last year, "Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines," was canceled at the last minute, reportedly due to the affected ATM manufacturer pressuring his then employer, Juniper Networks. In a statement released at the time, Juniper said that "to publicly disclose the research findings before the affected vendor could properly mitigate the exposure would have potentially placed their customers at risk. That is something we don't want to see happen."
This year, Jack no longer works for Juniper, but has become director of security research for IOActive. "The upside to this is that there has been an additional year to research ATM attacks, and I'm armed with a whole new bag of tricks," he said.
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