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India Tells Its Banks To Get Windows XP Off ATMs – In 2019!

posted by janrinok on Monday June 25 2018, @02:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the about-time-too dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

The Reserve Bank of India has given that country's banking sector a hard deadline to get Windows XP out of its ATMs: June 2019. That's more than five years beyond the May 2014 end of support for the OS.

In a notice to the nation's banks, issued last on June 21st, 2018, the Reserve Bank makes it clear that XP “and other unsupported operating systems” have been on its mind since at least April 2017, when it issued a circular outlining its concerns.

In spite of previous advisories instructing banks to put migration plans in place, things have not moved fast enough for the RBI.

“The slow progress on the part of the banks in addressing these issues has been viewed seriously by the RBI,” the notice said, adding that "the vulnerability arising from the banks’ ATMs operating on unsupported version of operating system and non-implementation of other security measures, could potentially affect the interests of the banks’ customers adversely".

The timetable says banks must reach 25 per cent deprecation by September 2018; 50 per cent by December 2018; and 75 per cent by March 2019.

The timetable also requires banks to implement anti-skimming technology, and to use whitelisting on ATMs so only approved software can run on them. Banks have been instructed to file their compliance plans by the end of July 2018.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Monday June 25 2018, @02:25PM (4 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday June 25 2018, @02:25PM (#698132) Journal

    I hope stack overflow is prepared.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Monday June 25 2018, @02:39PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @02:39PM (#698137) Journal

    Why? Is Stack Overflow running on XP also?

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    • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday June 25 2018, @04:24PM

      by RS3 (6367) on Monday June 25 2018, @04:24PM (#698180)

      Yep, because they can.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @04:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @04:41PM (#698190)

      Why? Is Stack Overflow running on XP also?

      Of course not. They run on Cold Fusion.

  • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Monday June 25 2018, @07:59PM

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Monday June 25 2018, @07:59PM (#698337) Homepage Journal

    Winter is coming... I hope stack overflow is prepared.

    Sorry, I don't get the joke. Would someone please enlighten me?

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