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Re: Banc of America Article
From: Avleen Vig <lists-nanog () silverwraith com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:56:46 -0800
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:45:16PM -0500, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
Another article states, "Bank of America Corp., one of the nation's largest banks, said many customers could not withdraw money from its 13,000 ATM machines because of technical problems caused by the attack. A spokeswoman, Lisa Gagnon, said the bank restored service to nearly all ATMs by late Saturday afternoon and that customers' money and personal information had not been at risk." Does anyone else, based upon the assumptions above, believe this statement to be patently incorrect (specifically, the part about 'personal information had not been at risk.') ?
Which not technically correct, they are not technically incorrect either. Initial assesments of the worm do show that it's payload is simply designed to propagate. Someone could of course have written another worm / whatever that did harver or allow the harvesting of data. This would be bad and until they patched their servers would probably have been possible. But within the confines of the attack scenario of last night, they are correct in what they said. It's just PR spin. What is scarier is that they dont have / use firewalls properly and traffic can so easily pass from their DMZ/public network to their private network. BoA is one place I'll never be willingly taking my business, and I'm sure now others here won't.
Current thread:
- Banc of America Article Alex Rubenstein (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Jack Bates (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Sean Donelan (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article alex (Jan 27)
- Re: Banc of America Article Avleen Vig (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Ryan Fox (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Alex Rubenstein (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article E.B. Dreger (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Dave Howe (Jan 26)
- Re: Banc of America Article Ryan Fox (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Wayne E. Bouchard (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article alex (Jan 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Banc of America Article Alex Rubenstein (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Charles Sprickman (Jan 25)
- Re: Banc of America Article Leo Bicknell (Jan 28)