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Re: 13,000 Bank of America ATM's taken out by virus.

  • From: Patrick
  • Date: Sat Jan 25 20:00:04 2003

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:

>
> Does this mean that BofA ATM's are SQL based or that BofA is running ATM
> traffic through some kind of internet VPN?  Perhaps they just plug the
> ATM's into any connection and pass cleartext transactions over the
> internet?  This is very suspicious, IMHO.

At $previous_employer half the connections to the various banks they had
were via VPN.

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