NoW hacker Glenn Mulcaire used ATM for phone hacking

I think that "hack" may be a bit of a stretch. What I'm guessing he did was plug a 4.99 handsset from argos into the adsl filter on the installed line behind the ATM, or if there was a spare power socket he might have gone a little more sophisticated and run a cordless handset base and phoned from, say, a cafe next door. Not exactly rocket science. Pure theft, but pretty simple.

To be honest this whole case was based on stupidity - don't leave your voicemail password set to the default! For the same reason you don't leave your front door unlocked for people to read your mail...

Cyber Security, IT security has reached to advance level where as dial up line based ATM system which were prevailing from a decade needs to be strongly assessed and controls to avoid such back door entry at perimeter of network are needed.

We are now in era of Security event and log management which has reached to level that, early warning can be raised for such events in CISO dashboards.

I think old dial up ATMs have been target for last few incidents of security breaches.