Traps: Preventing Successful Attacks on Legacy ATM Endpoints

Microsoft discontinued support of the venerable Windows XP operating system (OS) in April 2014. This OS had been a workhorse for over 12 years with a foothold on consumers, enterprises, and embedded systems such as automated teller machines (ATMs).

A year later, it was estimated that 75 percent of the world’s ATMs (2.2 million) were still running on Windows XP. Given the quantity of devices and t...