David Piniella

Around 2005, crooks discovered that the default factory-set master passcodes for the Tranax and Trident ATMs were printed right in the service manuals, which were readily available online. Triton’s master passcode was “123456.”

The manuals urged machine owners to immediately change the passcodes from the defaults, but many of the small business owners who favor the inexpensive, pedestal-sized machines never made the change. That led to an uncommon phenomenon in the world of cyber crime: hacking as a street crime.

via Two Dudes Prove How Easy It Is to Hack ATMs for Free Cash | WIRED.

  The tragedy is not that it happened, but that it keeps happening. But: people. Why not set them with a “must change password on first boot” bit? Because lazy people, that’s why.

Shon Harris – Logical Security, Contributor, passed away last month, Oct 8, 2014.

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