And the ATM customer walked away …
DaleWe had a call from Footscray Police Station late one Friday night. We’ve had a man walk in with $200 claiming that he found it sitting in the ATM cash…
Sorry NCR, we broke your brand new ATM.
When I wrote about printers jamming though being incorrectly loaded, I was reminded of the time we broke a brand new NCR ATM. I was working in the ATM helpdesk…
Your IT security threat is in the tent with you.
Most of the time, some people say 80%+, your IT security threat is in the tent with you (ie. someone who works for you) . Based on experiences at different…
Automatic Teller Machine Insider Fraud
It happened a long time ago, an bank fraud which saw 4 people lose their jobs. Fraud convictions also resulted. One bloke I heard, went overseas to “wash” his reputation…
Knowing what you’re actually getting.
It was the late 1980’s. My employer at the time ran two data centres in Melbourne. There was the production site in the Melbourne CBD, and the backup site at…
The mighty IBM 3800
Laser printers use two types of fusion to fuse toner to paper, hot fusion, and cold fusion. I’ve only seen cold fusion used once. StorageTek used to make mainframe printers…
Everything goes in circles: Cash Dye Bombs
Back when I was a spotty faced bank teller, banks in Australia had stopped using cash dye bombs. “Spoil the prize, and you spoil the crime.” was the theory with…
“They don’t know who you are, just hang up.”
Banks place a whole lot of responsibility on their tellers, to balance or “slicker” their cash draws at the end of the night. And pressure. No one goes home until…
The Blinkenlights were so pretty.
I had to descend one level, to check out one of our systems. I could see though the access door window, that the lights on the whole floor were out.…
People used to say it sounded like a machine gun …
... when it starts to print. If you click on the video, you’d see that they would be wrong. Impact, or more accurately, band printers, have a sound all of…