Kaspersky, Interpol uncover ATM fraud

Kaspersky Lab’s experts performed a forensic investigation into cybercriminal attacks targeting multiple ATMs around the world. During the course of this investigation, the company’s researchers discovered a piece of malware infecting ATMs that allowed attackers to...

Metacom enables remote ATM network roll-out

Spark ATM has grown to be South Africa’s leading independent ATM network since its inception in 2005, with more than 2 500 cash machines in some of the country’s most remote areas. These have all been built on the basis of a lean, low-cost business model that has...

FNB takes digital banking to remote areas

FNB has unveiled and is in the process of installing its new Slimline ATMs, which are capable of delivering digital banking into retailer environments at remote locations where the volume of business does not support a conventional ATM. FNB Slimline offers a large...

ATM hacker Barnaby Jack dies

Barnaby Jack, the ethical hacker who demonstrated how ATMs could be made to empty their vaults, has died. Jack was scheduled to present at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas later this week, on shortcomings in the security of medical devices. The subject of the...

Absa launches ‘branch-on-the-move’

Absa has embarked on its first operational trial of a “branch-on-the-move” in Idutywa in the Eastern Cape – where the original branch had been destroyed by fire. Absa’s head of retail markets, Arrie Rautenbach, says the branch-on-the-move concept is designed to...