Cybersecurity
Six Things You Need to Know About ATMs and the Windows XP-ocalypse
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Microsoft's deadline to end support for Windows XP is April 8, and while most PCs haven't used the operating system in years, there's a certain computer you interact with on a regular basis that probably still relies on it.
The 12-year-old software powers more than 95 percent of the world's cash machines, Robert Johnston, a marketing director at NCR, the largest ATM supplier in the U.S., told Bloomberg Businessweek. Microsoft's pledge to stop providing patches to address bugs could leave ATMs vulnerable to hacking.