> It is pretty surprising that the computer board/diagnostic ports are not inside the "armored" part of the machine
Well humans have to interact with the machine somehow. You can't exactly prevent physical access to the keypad, and from the nature of this attack, thieves could just hack out the pin pad to connect to the internal bus.
It would be noticed much more quickly, but they'd still be away with the cash.
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It is pretty surprising that the computer board/diagnostic ports are not inside the "armored" part of the machine, if that is indeed the case.
> It is pretty surprising that the computer board/diagnostic ports are not inside the "armored" part of the machine
Well humans have to interact with the machine somehow. You can't exactly prevent physical access to the keypad, and from the nature of this attack, thieves could just hack out the pin pad to connect to the internal bus.
It would be noticed much more quickly, but they'd still be away with the cash.
Well that's part of the point. The wire carrying that particular bus should be entirely inside the box.