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One of the best known wargames is the DEF CON Capture the flag competition where opponents attack and defend target infrastructure to collect points.

The problem with hardware lockdown is that at the end of the day x-boxes and PlayStations are only interacting with a screen to display media. ATMs on the other hand are designed t…

You could make a rigged PRNG but the front-end software of the system (different applications) have to display extremely detailed statistics on every function and variable (payouts…

The actual slot machines themselves are unexpectedly secure. But the back-end environment is usually a total mess. The aim of the admins is to make sure no-one gets to the back-end…

If you ever open up an ATM you'll realise that the majority of things are controlled by serial interfaces (upto 6 of them) for all the motors and pneumatic hardware. If the operati…

More than one exploit released by the shadow brokers was specifically targeted at Linux/Unix/Cisco and other operating systems... Its naive to think that other operating systems ar…

Statistical analysis of traffic flow in encrypted communications to determine the type of traffic has been done effectively. There was a paper a few years ago against VoIP protocol…

Depends on design and cost. Your thinking of a vault. Vaults have a solid door (as described above) and essentially its layers of security. The other 5 sides sometimes are the weak…

Enthusiast safe tech here. You cannot casually drill a safe. Not talking about your hardware store variety of safe, or a 'fireproof safe'. But a legit safe like you'd find in an AT…

Where the are drilling, next to the keypad is usually some kind of thin sheet metal or plastic or combination. The 'top' part of the ATM (which houses the PC running it, the cables…

The ones I've commonly seen in .AU, 20k for the thin service station ones and 40+k for the bigger mounted ones.