steven36 Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 INDIAN AUTHORITIES are putting their collective foot down with banks who are still using Windows XP in their ATMs. The Central Banking Authority of India RBI has told banks that they have one year to sort the mess out - that's June 2019 - or they will be fined. In the shorter term, banks have two months in which to upgrade to the latest version of Windows XP, add a BIOS password and disable any USB ports. All pretty obvious stuff, except that so far, there's been something of a disconnect between "obvious" and "actually doing it". Banks should have the latest operating systems up and running on at least 25 per cent of machines by the end of September, and all their ATMs by the end of June 2019. By March 2019, banks are expected to have an anti-skimming method in place to protect cards. And by the end of this year, the target is to have half of machines running up to date services, with 75 per cent by March 2019. The fact of the matter is, despite being an emerging super-state in terms of finance, the cash machine network is one area where there has been a complete failure to move with the times. As such, the banks will have to throw a lot of money at getting their systems up to code. By the time of this deadline, Windows XP will have been beyond End of Life for five years. At the time of writing, Windows XP has a 2.85 per cent market share globally (based on figures from Netmarketshare), but that covers everything from IoT right up to workstations. Nevertheless, it is still used on more machines that Windows 8.1 and significantly more than macOS versions 10.12 and 10.13 combined. The news comes as a rat was discovered last week in an ATM in the North East of India, having been out of service for over three weeks. During that time, the rat had literally eaten itself to death, gorging on 1.3m Rupees (about £14,000). We're not convinced that switching from Windows XP would have made much difference to that one. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archanus Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 Well, maybe they said that because of the improved security of the later OSs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisam Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 5 hours ago, steven36 said: As such, the banks will have to throw a lot of money at getting their systems up to code. By the time of this deadline, Windows XP will have been beyond End of Life for five years. Most probably Banks are using Windows Embedded for Point of Service or Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 servers for ATM. Even if for Windows Embedded POSREADY mainstream support ended on April 8, 2014, exteded support will end on April 9 2019. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted June 25, 2018 Author Share Posted June 25, 2018 2 minutes ago, luisam said: Most probably Banks are using Windows Embedded for Point of Service or Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 servers for ATM. Even if for Windows Embedded POSREADY mainstream support ended on April 8, 2014, exteded support will end on April 9 2019. yes that's most likely why they gave them a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archanus Posted June 25, 2018 Share Posted June 25, 2018 4 hours ago, steven36 said: yes that's most likely why they gave them a year. Windows Embedded is preffered in Banks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrinivas Posted June 26, 2018 Share Posted June 26, 2018 Can't they have some simpler open source based software for all the ATMs ? Based on Linux ? Imagine the amount of fees/royalties/maintenance fees ! After all, it doesn't have to be a complex software ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted July 2, 2018 Administrator Share Posted July 2, 2018 I have seen banks with unattended computers running on that. But still, good thing this. Last time I heard, such machines worldwide were still using it. On 6/26/2018 at 8:54 AM, shrinivas said: Can't they have some simpler open source based software for all the ATMs ? Based on Linux ? Imagine the amount of fees/royalties/maintenance fees ! After all, it doesn't have to be a complex software ? 5 Good suggestion. Maybe they are thinking such will require more amount of training which might take time and cost making it similar to non-free things I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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