SpiceMan Posted June 13, 2014 Report Share Posted June 13, 2014 Asked for proof, teenagers change welcome screen to 'This ATM has been hacked' Two Canadian kids have made a mockery of bank security by hacking into an automatic teller machine during a break between classes. The 14 year old duo Caleb Turon and Matthew Hewlett broke into a Bank of Montreal ATM during school lunch by following an online manual for accessing the machine's administrator functions. The security charade continued when the pair, after being asked by the bank's head of security for proof of their hack, simply broke back into the machine and printed off information including transaction data, surcharge profits and the total cash held in the unit. Turon and Hewlett gained access to that data by guessing the administrator password on their first attempt, indicating the ATM had default settings enabled. The rascals took it upon themselves to perform a civic duty by dropping the surcharge for transactions to one cent and changing the welcome display screen to: "Go away. This ATM has been hacked". Hewlett told the Winnipeg Sun they did not expect the hack to work. "We thought it would be fun to try it, but we were not expecting it to work," he said. The bank wrote the pair a lunch late note excusing them as they were "assisting BMO with security". The kids may have discovered one of a handful of websites that contained very detailed documentation explaining how to access administrative functions of ATMs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coss Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 " indicating the ATM had default settings enabled" which is why they hired " the bank's head of security" and why he/she should now go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Hi, "and why he/she should now go." Damn right. Inexcusable that the admin password on an ATM is left at the default setting. Very foobar (Wonder how many people get that reference.) Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Correct spelling...fubar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Snafu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 fubar = fucked up beyond all recognition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianBoy Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Correct spelling...fubar fubar ? Fucked up beyond all repair Fucked up beyond all reality Fucked up beyond all reason Fucked up beyond all recall Fucked up beyond all recovery Fucked up beyond all relief Fucked up beyond all restitution Fucked up beyond all renaissance Fucked up beyond any resolvability Fucked up beyond any recognition Fucked up by all rights any other ? I am JAFO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Hi, Yes, it is now written as fubar, but it started out as foobar. The access details for the superuser account on Unix IIRC. User 'foo' with password 'bar'. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 You are correct, as in my old UNIX system we would always use foobar for a dummy/troubleshooting variable...that was in a galaxy, far far away,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiceMan Posted June 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Yes, correct. Also, foobar is known as a meta-syntactic variable i.e. something used as a place holder for an entity to be changed later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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