Developer Barnaby Jack of IOActive demonstrated at the Black Hat 2010 conference “that criminals could open the ATM within few seconds and insert a USB drive with code to overwrite the system; in another demonstration, Jack used a remote management feature commonly found on standalone ATMs.” Video after the break.

The computers in the ATMs were all running Windows CE and there are actually even more ways to commandeer them. Barnaby’s particular method was shown off at the Black Hat conference – where hackers show vulnerabilities to companies.

[via GizmodoUSANW]

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