{"id":5983,"date":"2009-08-03T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T16:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/03\/atm-scammers-pwn-selves\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T16:15:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T16:15:27","slug":"atm-scammers-pwn-selves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/atm-scammers-pwn-selves\/","title":{"rendered":"ATM Scammers Pwn Selves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fake Automatic Teller Machine set up in a hotel lobby can collect PIN&#8217;s, account information, even credit card numbers.  This is why you should be careful where you stick your card.  In a moment of great irony, one such machine was set up in the hotel at a conference hosting 8,000 security professionals.  They noticed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The criminals probably didn&#8217;t realize that they were installing their ATM in a hotel that was soon going to be flooded with more than 8,000 security professionals, he added.<\/p>\n<p>They were smart enough to place the machine in one of the few spots in the hotel where there was no security camera to catch them, Priest said. &#8220;It was literally right next to the hotel security entrance.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9136179\/Fake_ATM_doesn_t_last_long_at_hacker_meet\">Details here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fake Automatic Teller Machine set up in a hotel lobby can collect PIN&#8217;s, account information, even credit card numbers. This is why you should be careful where you stick your card. In a moment of great irony, one such machine was set up in the hotel at a conference hosting 8,000 security professionals. They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/atm-scammers-pwn-selves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ATM Scammers Pwn Selves<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1yv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}