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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: 13,000 Bank of America ATM's taken out by virus.
At 03:23 PM 1/25/2003 -0800, Patrick wrote: I know of a bank whose consultants are blithering idiots. The lack of security baffles my mind. My home network is 10 times more secure than what I've been told about. :( I'd hate to think that this is fairly common among banks but I'm starting to wonder... The only positive thing that has come out of their lack of security is that I know one place not to put any of my money. :POn 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. Vinny Abello Network Engineer Server Management [email protected] (973)300-9211 x 125 (973)940-6125 (Direct) PGP Key Fingerprint: 3BC5 9A48 FC78 03D3 82E0 E935 5325 FBCB 0100 977A Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com (888)TELLURIAN There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.
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