Hacker Barnaby Jack who made ATM spit out cash dies days before tell-all conference

The fact that he was
working on hacking peoples pacemakers is scary.
Hacker Barnaby Jack who
made ATM spit out cash dies days before tell-all conference
“A PROMINENT hacker
has died just days before he was set to reveal to conference participants how
to make automatic teller machines spit out cash, authorities said yesterday.
Barnaby Jack died on Thursday, although the cause of death is still under
investigation, San Francisco Deputy Coroner Kris Barbrich said.
Craig Brophy, a spokesman
for computer security firm IOActive, Inc., where Jack worked, confirmed his
death and said the company would be issuing a statement.
Jack, who was in his
mid-30s, was scheduled to speak on August 1 at the Black Hat security
conference in Las Vegas.
He planned to reveal software
that uses a common transmitter to scan for and “interrogate”
individual medical implants.
The headline of his talk
was Implantable Medical Devices: Hacking Humans, according to a synopsis on the
Black Hat conference website.
He made headlines at the
conference in 2010 when he demonstrated his ability to hack stand-alone ATMs.
He was able to hack them in two ways – remotely and using physical keys that
come with the machines.
He had spent years
tinkering with ATMs and found that the keys that came with his machines were
the same for all ATMs of that type made by that manufacturer. He used his key
to unlock a compartment in the ATM, and then used a USB slot to insert a
program that commanded the ATM to dump its vaults.
In the second method, he
exploited weaknesses in the way ATM makers communicate with the machines over
the Internet.
“Barnaby had the
ability to take complex technology and intricate research and make it tangible
and accessible for everyone to learn and grow from,” Black Hat said in a
statement.
The conference said it
will not replace Jack’s talk, but instead leave the slot open so people can
commemorate his life and work.”
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