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| How to make an ATM spit out money, hitting the jackpot. Barnaby Jack, director of research for IOActive, showed how to do it, for a demonstration at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. Photo: technologyreview.com. |
Barnaby Jack, one prominent hacker, died Thursday, although the cause of death is still under investigation, according to San Francisco Deputy Coroner.
Jack planned to reveal software that uses a common transmitter to scan for and interrogate individual medical implants, the website said. Jack gave the tips to manufacturers that they could improve the security of the devices.
Jack, who was 35 years old, had scheduled to speak Aug. 1 at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. The headline of his talk was, Implantable Medical Devices: Hacking Humans, according to a synopsis on the Black Hat conference website.
He was a hacker who discovered a way to have ATM machines divide out cash, He got tools to do that, told he at the conference in 2010 when he demonstrated his ability to hack stand-alone ATMs. He was able to hack them in four ways - remotely and using physical keys that come with the machines.
Jack made cash pour from a machine for minutes on end. After studying four different companies’ models, he said,
every ATM I’ve looked at, I’ve found a ‘game over’ vulnerability that allowed me to get cash from the machine.He’s even identified an Internet-based attack that requires no physical access.
Craig Brophy, a spokesman for computer security firm IOActive, Inc., where Jack worked, confirmed his death and said the company would be issuing a statement.
The Triton device’s main circuit, or motherboard, is protected only by a door with a lock that is relatively easy to open, Jack was able to buy a key online. He then used a USB port on the motherboard to upload his own software, which changed the device’s display, played a tune, and made the machine spit out money.
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