Ex-Diebold tech charged with ATM theft

July 22, 2004

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Officials here have charged a former Diebold service technician with embezzlement in connection with a late May incident in which the…

Banks get help with ATM privacy, view-ability

by Sherry Yang

July 21, 2004

When Synergistics Research Group surveyed 1,000 consumers in the spring of 2001, 47 percent said that trying to read screens in sunlight topped their list of…

ATMIA renews insurance program with no rate, premium increases

July 19, 2004

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The ATM Industry Association says it has renewed its insurance program with no rate and premium increases for the third consecutive year. 

Fed-up SouthTrust offering reward for capture of Atlanta-area ATM thieves

July 18, 2004

ATLANTA - SouthTrust Corp. is mad at the culprits who used construction equipment to smash three of its Atlanta-area ATMs.

Irish official urges action on ATM raids

July 14, 2004

DUBLIN - Deputy Joe Costello, the Labour Party Spokesperson on Justice, has called on the Gardai to increase its effort in fighting armed raids on ATMs.

Antolini, convicted in Tri-State case, gets 7 years for bank fraud

July 12, 2004

TRENTON, N.J. - The only defendant to go to trial in what authorities called the biggest bank fraud in New Jersey history was sentenced to seven years in…

Futurex HSMs compatible with ACI software

July 6, 2004

ROCKLIN, Calif. - Futurex, Inc., a provider of payment security products for the financial and retail industries, says its Excrypt product line is compatible…

NY heist of TTW ATM may be linked to other thefts

July 6, 2004

NEW YORK - The brazen burglary of an ATM that was ripped out of a wall outside a Brooklyn cell-phone store may be connected to a series of similar thefts in…

British bank asks customers to limit ATM usage

July 5, 2004

LONDON - First Direct, an online British bank, is asking its customers to reduce their ATM usage to help combat soaring card fraud.

Construction equipment used to steal 3 ATMs in 2 weeks in Atlanta area

June 30, 2004

ATLANTA - Three times in the past two weeks, someone has snuck into Atlanta-area construction sites, hot-wired forklifts or other machines, then taken them to…

Remote key distribution may improve compliance rates, security

by Sherry Yang

June 29, 2004

Trying to improve PIN security, EFT networks require their members to use a unique encryption key for each ATM. While the requirement has been ignored by some…

Taiwan begins switch to chip cards

June 29, 2004

TAIWAN - Beginning next month, holders of ATM cards will have to upgrade to integrated-circuit or smart cards in a bid to counter the increasingly severe…

GASA intros international ATM crime database

June 28, 2004

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - The Global ATM Security Alliance (GASA), formed by the ATM Industry Association in June 2003, has launched a global ATM Crime…

eFunds and Trusted Security to provide remote re-keying for NCR, Diebold ATMs

June 22, 2004

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.�Electronic payments processor, eFunds Corporation (NYSE: EFD), announced the availability of a remote re-key solution for NCR and Diebold…

Triton EPP earns Visa approval

June 21, 2004

LONG BEACH, Miss. - Triton says the Encrypting PIN Pads (EPPs) on its RL5000 and FT5000 ATMs have been certified as being compliant with new security…

Jersey City ATM bilked of $160K

June 21, 2004

JERSEY CITY, N.J.-A Jersey City ATM was robbed of nearly $160,000 as a repairman serviced the machine on June 19.

Police seek suspect in ATM jam scam

June 17, 2004

IRVINE, Calif.-Police are looking for a man they believe is responsible for a series of ATM jamming scams in Orange and Los Angeles counties.

Implementing DES security

June 17, 2004

Learn how to successfully implement Triple DES security. In this white paper, Bluewire Technologies suggests cost-saving preparations and solutions for meeting…

I-S Cubed, nCipher ink collaboration, reseller agreements

June 16, 2004

San Jose, Calif. - I-S-Cubed (iS3), a provider of secure key management solutions for network-connected devices, has signed collaboration and reseller…

Police believe Manhattan ATM thefts work of gang

June 16, 2004

NEW YORK - Police believe that thieves who broke into a Midtown Manhattan deli and tried to take an ATM on June 15 probably belong to a gang of robbers who…