95% of the devices " ATM " in the world are threatened due to infiltration "Windows XP"

Facing the vast majority of ATM machines (ATM) around the world risk hack , so when the company is " Microsoft " Operation Stop your support system " Windows XP " during the month of April next
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And preparing " Microsoft " to stop support system " Windows XP " on the eighth of April this year , which means that the company cease any security updates to the system, where the company would only provide support to combat malicious applications only until the fourteenth of July 2015 .

The estimated proportion of ATM operating system " Windows XP " around the world, about 95 percent of the total of such devices , according to assurances " Robert Johnston " , director of marketing at NCR Corporation , which is one of the largest suppliers of those types of devices in the world.

Experts recommend the need to upgrade the operating system inside the ATM operating system " Windows XP " , but the report , told " Bloomberg " news , he pointed to the difficulty of upgrading all of those devices.

The report pointed to statements " Johnston " in which he emphasized that the ATM operating system " Windows XP " has been operating for 12 years , a statement which refers to the difficulty of internal components agree to most of these devices with modern operating systems .

For his part, " Ervinda choir singing ," CEO " Cal " software for ATMs, difficulty updated every ATM systems are safer than " Windows XP " , where he said " ATM machines around the world is not really ready to shift for modern operating systems . "

It is expected that the royal institutions for ATM machines in the coming period , and specifically before the eighth of April next , to re-evaluate those devices in order to determine the extent of the possibility of updating or not , or dispensed with altogether.

For his part , threatened to " Dean Stewart ," CEO " Diebold " specialized in providing security solutions for ATM machines , institutions that ignore Reload ATM hers face " a real danger " .

He explained, " Stewart " dangerous Stusbanda that those institutions , saying, "The continuation of the ATM system to Windows XP will make it more susceptible to malware and hacker attacks , especially by exploiting the gaps that will be discovered after the end of Microsoft's support for the system ."

It is noteworthy that the report had estimated the cost of renovation ATM's system of " Windows XP " to the latest system a few hundred dollars , a cost that increases when necessary to update the internal components for up to a few thousand dollars .