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- Brinks has a safe that runs Windows XP and hackers say they can crack it in 60 seconds
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Tuesday 28 July 2015
Windows XP is the venerable war horse of operating systems. What it isn’t is the greatest software to base your supposedly super-secure safe system on. But hey, that’s just what Brinks did. Next month at DefCon in Las Vegas (August 8), a group of security researchers say they’ll demonstrate how to crack one of Brink’s CompuSafe digital safes in under 60 seconds. And get this: The model in question is the CompuSafe Galileo, which is predominantly used in retail stores for cash management. That means serious amounts of loot would be up for grabs were these hackers more of the black hat variety.…
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