On April 8, Microsoft officially discontinued support for Windows XP, which also means it will stop patching security issues. If a product runs on Windows XP, it’s about to be far more vulnerable to ...

It's bad enough that 30 percent of the PCs in the world still run Windows XP and risk running an unprotected OS after April 8. Even more alarming is that many of those machines are ATMs at banks and ...

Recent stories have reminded the public that the leading operating system in ATMs (Automated Teller Machines) in the US is... Windows XP. At first you might think this is grounds for panic and ...

Nearly all of the ATMs in the world are running the Windows XP operating system, introduced by Microsoft 13 years ago -- and incredibly out of date, as any tech enthusiast will tell you. On April 8, ...

More than six out of 10 ATM machines in the country will be running on an obsolete operating system when Microsoft pulls the plug on Windows XP support on April 8, raising serious security and ...

A high-tech criminal group in Europe has been infecting ATMs (cash machines) with malware, and then completely emptying the machines without a trace. The group has not yet been caught and the attacks ...

Banks' insistence on sticking with Windows XP as their ATM OS of choice is a risky move, says InfoSec Institute's Kim Crawley World-renowned IT security expert Bruce Schneier is a friend of mine. He’s ...

Banks caught in a major transition to embedded chip cards are sticking with XP and uninterested in upgrading to Windows 8 The vast majority of bank ATMs around the world currently run on Windows XP.

Bloomberg reports that around 95% of ATMs around the world still run on Microsoft’s 12 years old operating system, which is going to be discontinued in April. Though update support will still be ...

Windows XP will reach End of Life on April 8th, 2014, and there is already a lot of fear-mongering going on, on the Internet, about how ATMs are not ready for the XP Armageddon. But reading about ...

With all the controversy and anxiety over ATM operators only now getting around to moving their systems from Windows XP to Windows 7, a good question arises: Why stop at Windows 7? Why not deploy ...