ATM Vendors

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/atm-vendor-halts-talk/

An ATM vendor has succeeded in getting a security talk taken out of the upcoming Black Hat conference, after a researcher announced he would reveal a vulnerability in the system. The researcher, Barnaby Jack, works for Juniper Networks, and was going to show how he could "jackpot" a popular ATM brand by exploiting a vulnerability in its software.

But Jack's employer released a statement saying it was canceling the talk due to the vendor's intervention. The statement read, "Juniper believes that Jack’s research is important to be presented in a public forum in order to advance the state of security...However, the affected ATM vendor has expressed to us concern about publicly disclosing the research findings before its constituents were fully protected. Considering the scope and possible exposure of this issue on other vendors, Juniper decided to postpone Jack’s presentation until all affected vendors have sufficiently addressed the issues found in his research.”

Truly a scary thought...