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EcoATM Automates Mobile Phone Recycling Process

7:00AM Jack Loftus | Mobile phone recycling services are ubiquitous today, but this is the first time I’ve seen the process automated and presented in a convenient ATM-like package. More »

South Africa’s ATMs Get Weaponised With Pepper Spray

12:00AM Adam Frucci | In South Africa, ATMs have been weaponised with pepper spray to ward off thieves. What could possibly go wrong?? More »

Brute Force Password ATM Attack, A New Definition

11:20PM Jesus Diaz | As you know, to steal an ATM you only need John Connor’s Atari Portfolio, a credit card interface, and a password cracking program. Easy. That or 20 thugs and all that money will be yours. More »

Stealing An ATM And Backhoe Has Hilarious Consequences

9:20AM Sean Fallon | I believe Wired’s Joe Brown summed this story best on Twitter: “Use stolen backhoe to steal ATM, ditch backhoe, ATM falls off truck, too heavy to pick up. Wish we had a backhoe.” More »

The World’s Most Inconvenient ATM

9:40AM Sean Fallon | Either that is the worst ATM location in the world, or this guy is two feet tall. Too bad it’s not part of a series, I would like to see how this unfolds. [TechEBlog] More »

Crooks Rig ATM with Eee PC to Steal Credit Card Info

8:30PM Jesus Diaz | In yet another demonstration of the never-ending hacking possibilities of the ASUS Eee PC laptop, three criminals in Brazil rigged an ATM with the little low cost computer to grab credit card information and personal information numbers to clone cards. Smart, except that one of them was a total moron. More »

Broken ATM Doubles Withdrawals (While Supplies Last)

9:00AM Wilson Rothman | It didn’t last long, but we’re surprised it happened at all: An ATM located in northern England was paying out double when users went for the maximum £300 withdrawal, netting £600 in spending cash. Needless to say, everyone who benefitted called their mothers, fathers, cousins and dog sitters, so that the overly generous cash machine was plumb out of bills within hours. More »

BlingNation Blinger Handheld ATM Confuses Us

6:15AM Jason Chen | At first glance we thought this BlingNation Blinger was a handheld ATM device that would let you purchase stuff directly from a salesperson (like in Apple stores), but on closer examination it’s actually quite weirder. More »

ATMs Were Born Radioactive 40 Years Ago

7:57PM Seamus Byrne | This is John Shepherd-Barron, the scottish guy who invented the first ATM. First installed 40 year ago by Barclays, it worked with Carbon 14-impregnated cheques, the same radioactive material that is used to date fossils. But fret not: not only it wasn’t radioactive enough but they were soon replaced by cards and now even dogs can use them. The next step according to him: He says that moving money around costs too much, so ATMs will disappear in just a few years. Instead, he predicts the cellphone will become our next purse for all kinds of transactions. The ATM also brought other things, like the 4-digit PIN number. Shepherd-Barron thought that he could use his six-figure army number as his password, but his wife thought otherwise: “Over the kitchen table, she said she could only remember four figures, so because of her, four figures became the world standard.” The man who invented the cash machine [BBC News] More »