Microsoft has announced a long ago that it will end its support for the ancient OS, Windows XP from April 8. We all know that most, maybe all ATM systems in India makes use of Windows XP still now. Not just ATMs, Banking operations too use the same old and vulnerable OS. The RBI has asked all bank sectors to take immediate action towards this.
This end of the support will likely increase the chances of attacks on such ATM and other operations and its surely the one thing they need to secure.
"The probability of attacks on such a system may increase and it may be difficult to defend such attacks in the absence of Microsoft support," RBI said
Microsoft is about to stop their support to the XP which means they will totally leave it and stop fixing bugs, updating it or anything. The OS that released in 2001 will be silenced by April 8, 2014 as (it seems) they are trying to force people to use their latest OSes like Windows 8 and 8.1 which is as they say the securest and latest ones.
Whatever, it is a must to take steps on this as its going to be very vulnerable to all kinds of threats. Everyone and especially the ATMs need to take actions in using the new and safer systems.
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